Trouble finding printer

Hi all.  My desktop cannot find my printer even though both the desktop and the printer are hard wired to my home network.  Help!  This is driving me batty.
  I have a Linksys WRT160N router and a Brother MFC 7840W wireless printer.  My desktop is running XP.  I now the connectios are ok because my laptop can find the wireless network and print to the printer.  My desktop doesn't have a wireless card, but that shouldnt matter as it is hardwired to the router and the Linksys Easylink running on the desktop can see both the desktop and the printer on the local network.
The Add Printer Wizard in windows simply doesn't see the printer and I don't know how to find it.  Any help much appreciated.

Make sure that the printer's driver is installed properly on the computer...Make sure File and Printer Sharing is Enabled...
Also make sure both the computer's are in the same workgroup...The default workgroup name in Windows Vista has been changed to WORKGROUP. In WindowsXP, the default workgroup name is MSHOME...

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