Control Panel; Network Connections; Wireless Network - Page 29

Installing the Printer Driver

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You need to temporarily change your PC’s 
wireless settings. Please follow the on-screen 
instructions. Please make sure you take notes 
on all the settings such as SSID or channel of 
your PC. You will need them to return your PC 
back to its original wireless settings. Click 

Next

.

9

To communicate with the un-configured 
wireless printer, temporarily change the 
wireless settings on your PC to match printer’s 
default settings shown on this screen. Check 

Checked and confirmed

, and then click 

Next

.

Note

• See the User’s Guide of your Network Interface or 

your PC for how to change the wireless settings.

• If a message to restart your PC appears after the 

wireless settings have been changed, restart your 
PC and then go back to step 

2

 and continue with 

the install skipping steps 8 and 9.

• For Windows

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 XP SP2 users

You can temporarily change the wireless settings 
on your PC, following the steps below:

1

Click 

Start

 and then 

Control Panel

.

2

Click the 

Network Connections

 icon.

3

Select and right click 

Wireless Network 

Connection

. Click 

View Available 

Wireless Networks

.

4

You can see the Brother wireless device 
(your printer) in the list. Select 

SETUP

 and 

click the 

Connect

.

5

Check the Wireless Network Connection 
status. It may take a few minutes to change 
from 0.0.0.0. to 169.254.x.x IP address to 
be shown on screen (where x.x. are 
numbers between 1 and 254).

Item

Record the current 
wireless computer 
settings

Communication mode
(Infrastructure / Ad-hoc)

Channel
(1-14)

Network name
(SSID / ESSID)

Authentication method
(Open system / Shared key 
/ Other)
Encryption
(None / WEP / Other)

Encryption key