I wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: >> Doesn't launching hp-setup from a root terminal work? > > It won't, PolicyKit is set up to deny access to root by default. Well, actually hp-setup isn't using PolicyKit, system-config-printer is (so I'm replying to the wrong message). But hplip has its own bogus checks against running as root (search for getuid in /usr/share/hplip to find them). Kevin Kofler