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Geese1
Aspirant
Dec 17, 2016
Solved

New R7800 will not connect to Brother printer

I just bought a new Netgear R7800 this morning, and have been able to get everything set up and working except for my printer.   I currently use a Brother HL-2275DW using a wired ethernet cable int...
Brother
printer
R7800
Troubleshooting
  • TheEther's avatar
    TheEther
    Dec 17, 2016

    An amber light is fine.  It means that the port is running at 100 Mbps, which is the speed of the printer's port.

     

    Try resetting the printer.  The instructions are here.

TheEther's avatar
TheEther
Guru
Dec 17, 2016

An amber light is fine.  It means that the port is running at 100 Mbps, which is the speed of the printer's port.

 

Try resetting the printer.  The instructions are here.

  • Geese1's avatar
    Geese1
    Aspirant
    Dec 18, 2016

    Thanks for the link. Resetting the printer did the trick, and I after that the printer could be seen again and I was able to reload the software. Everthing seems to be working fine now.

     

    Thanks a lot for all your help!