The Brother HL-2135W is a mono laser printer with the ability of a wireless connectivity.
This guide describes how to install it in order to use it in Wi-Fi mode.
The following procedures are necessary to (re)configuring the printer or to know its set up. They have to keep in mind because they will be recalled several times in this guide.
This method resets password and IP for the print server.
This method allows to print the printer and network settings (2 sheets). If the wireless is disabled (the relative green LED, on the back panel, is turned off) it will be print only the printer settings (1 sheet).
Tip: if the IP Address is 0.0.0.0
, wait for one minute and try again. Normally it happens after a network settings reset.
This method allows to enable the wireless network (the relative green LED, on the back panel, turns on) or to disable it and to print the network settings (1 sheet).
If the wireless is enabled, on the network configuration page will be print:
<Interface> WirelessLAN on
The following steps are necessary in order to install the printer drivers.
apparmor-utils
cups
sudo aa-complain cupsd
LPR
and cupswrapper
drivers following the below steps:sudo dpkg -i --force-all <LPR>.deb sudo dpkg -i --force-all <cupswrapper>.deb
Info: on Fedora, it's required the Perl environment, which can be installed with:
sudo dnf install perl-core
dpkg -l | grep Brother
The following steps associate an IP address to the printer; once done the printer can be installed on multiple computers.
This means that, even after a new installation of the OS on all the computers, the printer can be reinstalled with the same IP address that was used until then and which can be obtained from its network settings.
Only if the network configurations are changed, it's necessary to repeat the following procedure.
Create New Wi-Fi Network
and create a new hotspot with:
once connected to it, go to Edit Connections
and edit it as follows:
IP Address 10.42.*.* (via DHCP)
or:
IP Address 169.254.*.* (via APIPA)
Network Configuration
with user admin and password access. Configure Wireless
and set the parameters as follows: SETUP
to the one's Wi-Fi network.IP Address 192.168.*.* (via DHCP)
Network Configuration
with user admin and password access.Configure TC/IP
and set a static IP address and DHCP
as boot method:
Important: Be sure to have the package system-config-printer
.
If not already done, disconnect the USB cable from the printer.
Go to Settings
> Printers
and add the new printer using its URI as follows:
Choose the printer's driver from the database and select the accompanied versions: