Why doesn't hardware detection find my printer? Solved

[joe at actionline.com]

Found a solution at the linuxquestions.org link below under the title:
"KDE 3.4 Printer Configurator utility freezes session"

www.linuxquestions.org/questions/mandriva-30/mandriva-2006-kde-3.4-printer-configurator-utility-freezes-session-392817/

In /etc/cups, there was an entry in the file: client.conf
that was causing the printer configurator to freeze.
By deleting that printer name entry, the printer configurator
worked fine.