Well, after much fussing without any progress, I used Synaptic to install cups. Now before you say "duhhhhh", let me explain. Synaptic lists many cup-<somethings> . cups is described as the scheduler, and not installed. But it also lists it as conflicts with cups. What sense does that make? Anyway, no change was observed after the install. So I shut down and wrote some notes. Booted back up and Bingo! The printer was magically present without any hesitation. Incidentally I also upgraded a dozen or so packages.
So what is this scheduler stuff? What is this conflicts with cups? Any ideas on how it went away (other than operator error)? Thanks to all those who tried to help. And apologies to those whose reading time was taken up by this saga. -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug