Potato with USB support

[Vittorio De Martino]

I have a USB Epson scanner (supported under Red Hat 7.0) and I've just got 
the CDs of Debian 2.2r2 that I want to install.
My question is as simple as that: 
needing the scanner, what "flavor" of kernel (as I read in the installation 
instruction) should I install in order to have USB devices supported by 
default? 
Vanilla is that the right flavor ?
If not ,what should I do?