Thanks for that, oxie - good to see you back on the scene.   Any more joy with Mint?   (Bleurgh. If there is one little moth in the flat, how does it end up in one's beer???)

Apologies again OE - not been 'on the scene of late' RL eventualities etc..

Have given up on Mint 13 [Under VB on Foxconn].

However, carried on messing experimenting with that PC - dug out a 'Drive swap caddy' and have two machine in one - either XP or Linux - after a reboot and one minor change to Bios setting [after removing the 80 Gb caddy drive].

Had some fun getting the Buffallo 54 wi-fi card under ndiswrapper - thwarted by an entry that blacklisted it! Modeprobe.d dir [sorry, folder] - finally got it going tho' 🙂

Learnt quite a bit on the way - had to use legacy [fwclutter] in the end. The one thing that did fox me was having the driver .inf file still under ndiswrapper dir even tho' I did a purge prior to fwcutter.  Removed that at voila, it worked.

Running Irfanview under wine - trying to get it to 'see' the scanner but no joy.

A log file on installation for TWAIN states twain dll not installed [assume cos it/they exists].

Read a forum somewhere the dll points to use 'sane' - GC said I should try that along while ago when I first tried Linux but, if you remember the scanner squarked. There be a regedit in wine - quite interesting.

Will throw up a few screen-shots if you are interested - but have to be later - Mekon not to good at the mo.

Love the antics of you Moth :^O

Oxie...