Brother MFC-845CW Quick Setup Manual page 45

Installing the Driver & Software
Using the Setup Wizard from the control panel LAN menu for wireless
network configuration
Important
Make sure that you have finished the
instructions from Step 1 Setting Up the
Machine on page 4 through 15.
1
Write down the wireless network settings of
your access point or wireless router.
SSID (Service Set ID or Network name)
_________________________
WEP Key (if needed)
________________________
WPA/WPA2-PSK (TKIP or AES) (if needed)
_________________________
The WEP key is for 64 bit encrypted networks
or 128 bit encrypted networks and can contain
both numbers and letters. If you do not know
this information you should see the
documentation provided with your access point
or wireless router. This key is a 64-bit or 128-bit
value that must be entered in an ASCII or
HEXADECIMAL format.
For example:
64 bit ASCII: Uses 5 text characters.
"
e.g. Hello
64 bit Uses 10 digits of hexadecimal data.
"
Hexadecimal:
e.g. 71f2234aba
128 bit ASCII: Uses 13 text characters.
"
e.g. Wirelesscomms
sensitive)
128 bit Uses 26 digits of hexadecimal data.
Hexadecimal: "
e.g. 71f2234ab56cd709e5412aa3ba
WPA/WPA2-PSK is a Wi-Fi
Pre-shared key, which lets the Brother wireless
machine associate with access points using
TKIP or AES encryption (WPA-Personal).
WPA/WPA2-PSK (TKIP or AES) uses a
Pre-Shared Key (PSK) that is more than 8 and
less than 63 characters in length.
See the Network User's Guide for more details.
"
(this is case sensitive)
"
"
(this is case
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Protected Access
Note
Make sure that the machine is turned on by
connecting the power cord.
Improper Setup
If you have previously configured the wireless
settings of the machine you must reset the
network (LAN) settings before you can
configure the wireless settings again.
On your machine, press Menu.
Press a or b for LAN and press OK.
Press a or b to choose Factory Reset, and
then press OK.
Press 1 twice for Yes to accept the change.
2
On your machine, press Menu.
Press a or b to choose LAN and press OK.
Press a or b to choose Network I/F and
press OK.
Press a or b to choose WLAN and press OK.
The wired network interface will become
inactive with this setting.
It will take about a minute for the LAN menu on
the LCD to become available again.
Press Stop/Exit.
3
When the LAN menu becomes available, press
Menu.
Press a or b to choose LAN and press OK.
Press a or b to choose Setup WLAN and
press OK.
Press a or b to choose Setup Wizard and
press OK.
This will start the wireless setup wizard.
4
The machine will search for available SSIDs. If
a list of SSIDs is displayed, use the a or b
keys to choose the SSID you wrote down in
step 1, then press OK. Go to step 8.
Note
It will take a several seconds to display a list of
available SSIDs.
If your access point is set to not broadcast the
SSID you will have to manually add the SSID
name. Go to step 5.
5
Select <New SSID> using a or b and press
OK. Go to step 6.
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