On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 03:50:42PM -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>
> On 02/04/15 15:18, Fred Smith wrote:
> >well. in that case, it may be a good idea to:
> >1. open a support ticket with Brother, specifically to get their web
> > site's download page fixed;
> >2. search their site for the driver installer I mentioned in an earlier
> > mail. it is supposed to be able to find and download the drivers
> > for you, when you run it.
> >3. if one of the more generic drivers for cups on your linux system works,
> > use it. that's what I did for years with my HL2070N.
> .
> Yes, I have done as in item 3 above and the printer works wirelessly
> as expected. I have tried different drivers on the Brother printers
> I have and they always seem to print, I know that. I was just asking
> if someone had been through this with this model and wanted to know
> what they had done. I don't have any problem setting up printers.
Glad to hear it is working for you.
>
> In this case basic stuff like the mac address was not specified
My HL2070N (as well as our DCP-7065DN) has a web page you can access,
and you can find the MAC address thre, too. I'd imagine yours does, too.
> anywhere, usually it's on a label at least and I needed that to set
> up a static dhcp address. I eventually got that from a self test
> page and learned later that it can be read from a one line LCD
> display included instead of the usual row of lights but doing that
> involves a lot of not very intuitive button pushing and the printer
> installation instructions are geared to Windows and an included CD.
> There is no ethernet port, a negative, USB or wifi only. I
> rationalized that I will only use the wifi anyway so I can live with
> that limitation.
Yeah, I'm sure they were saving a few cents on hardware by not
inclding wired networking.
> I could go on but ...
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