Brother Wireless Printer

[G.Wolfe Woodbury]

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R. G. Newbury wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 15:32 +0000, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > Does anybody know how I can set up my Brother wireless printer to work
>> > with Fedora 8?
>> >
>> > I've given it a static IP address on the network, and the model of the
>> > printer is a DCP-3400W.
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> Note that you will likely have to set up the printer AT THE PRINTER END,
> for the static IP address you have selected. Although it is supposed to
> be possible to do it with DHCP, I have never been able to make that
> work..as the IP always moves as things are powered up and down..

You /can/ set up DHCP servers to always assign the same address based
on the MAC (ethernet) address of the device.  I use a CENTOS
installation on an old Dell box to handle the DHCP duties on my home
network and have the main machines always get the same IP so that I
don't have to manually configure the IPs all the time.

Note in configuring "static DHCP" your "static" machines should be
defined in a different range than your dynamic IPs.  For the "standard"
Fedora dhcp daemon, this is a set of extra stanzas in hte config file.

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Wolfe

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