Table of Contents

 

Section I Network Operation

 

1

Introduction

2

 

Network features........................................................................................................................................

2

 

Other Network features .......................................................................................................................

3

2

Changing your machine’s network settings

5

 

How to change your machine’s network settings (IP address, Subnet mask and Gateway).....................

5

 

Using the control panel........................................................................................................................

5

 

Using the BRAdmin Light utility ...........................................................................................................

5

 

Other Management Utilities .......................................................................................................................

8

 

Web Based Management (web browser) ............................................................................................

8

 

BRAdmin Professional 3 utility (Windows®) ........................................................................................

8

 

BRPrint Auditor (Windows®)................................................................................................................

9

3

Configuring your machine for a wireless network

 

 

(For MFC-8710DW,MFC-8910DW and MFC-8950DW(T))

10

 

Overview..................................................................................................................................................

10

 

Confirm your network environment..........................................................................................................

11

 

Connected to a computer with a WLAN access point/router in the network (Infrastructure mode) ...

11

 

Connected to a wireless capable computer without a WLAN access point/router in the network

 

 

(Ad-hoc mode)...............................................................................................................................

12

 

Wireless configuration temporarily using a USB cable (Recommended) ................................................

13

 

Configuration using the machine’s control panel Setup Wizard ..............................................................

18

 

Manual configuration from the control panel .....................................................................................

19

 

Configuring your machine when the SSID is not broadcast ..............................................................

22

 

Configuring your machine for an enterprise wireless network...........................................................

27

 

One push configuration using WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) or AOSS™ ...............................................

35

 

Configuration using the PIN Method of WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) ....................................................

38

 

Configuration in Ad-hoc mode (For IEEE 802.11b) .................................................................................

43

 

Using configured SSID ......................................................................................................................

43

 

Using a New SSID.............................................................................................................................

47

4

Control panel setup

50

 

Network menu..........................................................................................................................................

50

 

TCP/IP...............................................................................................................................................

50

 

Ethernet (wired network only)............................................................................................................

53

 

Status (For DCP-8110DN,DCP-8150DN,DCP-8155DN,DCP-8250DN,MFC-8510DN and

 

 

MFC-8520DN)/Wired Status (For MFC-8710DW,MFC-8910DW and MFC-8950DW(T)) ............

53

 

Setup Wizard (wireless network only) ...............................................................................................

53

 

WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup)/AOSS™ (wireless network only)........................................................

53

 

WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) w/PIN Code (wireless network only) ..................................................

53

 

WLAN Status (wireless network only) ...............................................................................................

53

 

 

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