Lynksys BEFSR41 hates Brother HL 2070N

Computer: Mac Pro
OS: 10.5.8
I installed a Lynksys Router (Mod. BEFSR41 ver. 4.1) and now I can't print to my Brother HL 2070N.
I have upgraded the firmware for both the router and the printer. The router can't recognize the printer (Message: failed to connect to the device) or its drivers (when trying to add the printer after erasing it in System Prefs.) However, Brother FirmwareUpdater updated it from version 1.33 to 1.48.
I can print to an Epson Stylus 1280 that is in the same router. I have another router (Belkin F5D7230-4) and it communicates and prints OK.
What's happening?

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Excellent observations Paul, and I don't disagree
with you much. I felt compelled to respond a little
further. I consider myself to be a longtime Windows
expert. I have my own business where I build and
repair Windows computers. When I saw the plans for
Vista I realized Microsoft was going nowhere and
decided to make the switch. I made this switch based
on the information I get from podcasts mainly. I
listen to Leo Laporte, Maccast, and others who had
convinced me that Mac was the way to go. Like you
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glitches, intrusions and threats.
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My HP 4050 Color laserjet works just great connected to either my Airport Base Station OR my Airport Express. I use the USB cable, no muss no fuss. Using Bonjour (or whatever it's called now) you open the printer prefs, click the "+" to add a printer and its right there. Perhaps there's a problem with your D-Link "GameFuel" router. Yes, yes I know your Windows computers (even the MacBook in Windows mode works fine with it... okay.... my Apple Airport Extreme units work great with all my Mac's)
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when I first got it home it did the RSD for 6 or 7
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screen would light up and then just cut off. When I
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because my wireless does not work. Luckily I know
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this out. What would a regular consumer do. I have
the tools, connectors, and wire for my business. I
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5: I am a huge gamer. I have purchased pretty much
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5 years. I built my own gaming rig in addition to
the other computers I have at the house and I enjoy
the game experience as much time will allow. Should
I go into detail about the MAC OSX gaming experience.
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the switch. The games are simply too few and way
too late to market on the Mac side. This is well
known and simply a market forces issue. I
understand this.
And this is a problem how??? You were already aware of the gaming status before you purchased your first Mac but clearly this IS a problem for you as you felt compeled to mention it.
I'll post my comments; I love the games that I play on all my Mac's. They continue to work and perform and exceed my expectations.
6: I upgraded to iTunes yesterday. Where is my
music? I lost everything. There are question marks
on all my titles. A search of the internet found
that many, many people are having the same issue. It
even made the front page of Digg.
I too upgraded my iTunes and didn't loose any of my songs. I hope you have corrected the problem.
6A: I play movies, videos, podcasts, and the like on
all my computers all the time. On about half of all
my old videos the video is now out of sync with the
voice and the video is choppy and warped. These
movies and videos played fine on computer just on
Tuesday, what happened. I noticed that the famed Wil
Wheaton had his music replaced after his story hit
the front page of Digg (after several phone calls to
Apple Support). I didn't work on Star Trek, does
that mean I don't get my music back?
????? I don't know what to say.... as afar as old (PC) videos, are we talking pron or are they important videos that you'd like to fix and convert to a suitable format?
Sidenote: I had to download VLC Player just to get
my videos up and running on my MAC. Windows has an
auto codec download feature so that I don't have to
worry about it. By the way, When I rip DVD's in the
MP4 format on my PC and transfer them to my MAC they
don't play.
See above comment.
Paul, I could go further. My hands are hot, my legs
are killing me and just just put $2500.00 into a
laptop that Apple says is a notebook because I should
not use it on my lap. I have a 1.8GHZ Thinkpad for
work and I need to switch over to it now so that I
can get some work done. By the way, those stickers
that Apple puts in the box of all there products - I
put one on my Thinkpad so everybody would comment and
I could launch into my new found MAC religion. I
have to say that I am having second thoughts.
You are 100% corect, your MacBook should NOT overheat your lap but not ALL MacBook's do that. I'll restate that our three MacBook's do not, nor have they ever gotten so hot we couldn't use them on our laps.
I hope that you respond. Very interested in what you
have to say about my MAC experience.
BTW, to date, I have never gotten a virus in my life!
I have had spyware I must admit. Once I learned
what not to do the issue was over.
That's cool, I have had many people send me email virus' even after I switched to a Mac (about 8 years ago).
Somebody mentioned to me that the Apple forums are
like a hospital...you only see the the posts when
people have issues.
Yes that seems to make sense.
Could that also be the case with
Windows? You only hear about the bad things from
people who don't have a clue how to protect
themselves?
When are there "good" things happening on a Windows computer, no seriously, tell me about them. I can give you an earful about how lame my Dell PC and laptop are.
Mac on man! I will still be fully converted at home
in a few months when I replace my custom built dual
core AMD with a Mac Pro!
Way cool - people on these forums are here to help.
Greg
PS Leo rocks!

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