Thanks for your reply Simon; I added "hpaio" initially, which brought the same result, and then took it out because I found a forum link that said it was not necessary/could create a problem with the newer version of HPLIP (I'm running 2.8.6b).
In response to your email I put it in again with the same result. HPLIP is running, and working properly I think, but I'm not sure what to say about "hp* daemons." Do they get activated at boot time, or are they called called when needed? RBW
