Brother HL-S7000DN - Understanding Manual Symbols and Conventions

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Table of Contents
Section I Network Operation
1 Introduction 2
Network features........................................................................................................................................2
Other Network features .......................................................................................................................3
2 Changing your machine’s network settings 4
How to change your machine’s network settings
(IP address, Subnet mask and Gateway)...............................................................................................4
Web Based Management (web browser) ............................................................................................4
Using the control panel........................................................................................................................4
Using the BRAdmin Light utility ...........................................................................................................4
BRAdmin Professional 3 utility (Windows
®
) ........................................................................................6
3 Configuring your machine for a wireless network 7
Overview....................................................................................................................................................7
Confirm your network environment............................................................................................................8
Connected to a computer with a WLAN access point/router in the network
(Infrastructure mode) .......................................................................................................................8
Connected to a wireless capable computer without a WLAN access point/router in the network
(Ad-hoc mode).................................................................................................................................9
Wireless configuration temporarily using a USB cable (Recommended for Windows
®
) .........................10
Configuration using the machine’s control panel Setup Wizard ..............................................................14
Manual configuration from the control panel .....................................................................................14
Configuring your machine when the SSID is not broadcast ..............................................................16
Configuring your machine for an enterprise wireless network...........................................................18
One push configuration using WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) or AOSS™ ...............................................22
Configuration using the PIN Method of WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup)....................................................24
Configuration in Ad-hoc mode (For IEEE 802.11b) .................................................................................27
Using configured SSID ......................................................................................................................27
Using a New SSID.............................................................................................................................28
4 Control panel setup 30
Overview..................................................................................................................................................30
Network menu..........................................................................................................................................31
TCP/IP...............................................................................................................................................31
Ethernet (wired network only)............................................................................................................33
Wired Status......................................................................................................................................33
Setup Wizard (wireless network only) ...............................................................................................34
WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup)/AOSS™ (wireless network only)........................................................34
WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) w/PIN Code (wireless network only) ..................................................34
WLAN Status (wireless network only) ...............................................................................................34
MAC Address ....................................................................................................................................35
Set to Default ....................................................................................................................................35