Airport Extreme (802.11n) printing problems

My printer (Brother 1270N) is hooked to one of the Ethernet WAN-ports of my AEBS (802.11n). But I can't see the printer anywhere in the Airport setup utility. So I can't print.
On my older router, the printers IP-adress was easy to spot in the webreader-interface.
Also, I have hooked up the printer directly to the mac, installed and printed with no problem.
But since there's not just my computer on the network, I would obviously prefer to have a network printer ...
Any comments...?
PowerBook G4, 1 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I don't believe Brother printers work with the base station. Apple used to publish a list of supported printers but I cant find it any more.

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Walter Wedler wrote:
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How fast is your internet connection?
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If you transfer personal info between computers fast speeds allowed up to 54 will save you time.
'n' is to provide greater range like Mimo and increased transfer speeds.
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No,if you dont transfer huge data,
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