Mar 10, 2018 Wait a couple of minutes for the computer to successfully recognize and install the printer as a device. Click here to go to the Downloads section of the official Brother website. Either search for your Brother printer using its model number or: Choose your Brother Product category. Select your Brother Product series on the next page. I'm trying to install a printer from Brother (model MFC-J470DW). I've been to Brother's site, downloaded and unzipped the.gz driver file. Now it's asking if I want to specify the device URI. Other posts show that you can choose no for a USB printer. I have a network printer, so I think I need to specify one.
If the above message appears, verify the following points to resolve the issue.
NOTE: Illustrations are from a representative product and operating system, and may differ from your Brother machine and operating system.
1. Verify the network devices
Verify that all devices on the network where your PC and the Brother machine are connected work correctly.
Turn off the Brother machine and turn it back on.
The built-in network card may not work for some reason. Turn off the Brother machine and turn it back on, this will reset the network card.
Veryify the Brother machine's network interface.
The Brother machine's network interface (wired LAN or wireless LAN) may be disabled. Enable the network interface (wireless LAN or wired LAN).
> Click here how to enable the Brother machine's network interface (wired LAN or wireless LAN).Verify the network connection between your PC and an access point.
The network connection between your PC and an access point may be unavailable. Verify the network connection by browsing internet sites on your PC or sending and receiving emails over the internet to verify the network connection.
Verify the network devices and connection cables on the network (only for a wired connection).
The network devices and connection cables on the network where your PC and the Brother machine are connected may not work correctly. Verify the Link LED of your router or hub to make sure they work without any problems.
- If the Link LED turns on or blinks, the network devices and connection cables work correctly. Go to the next point.
- If the Link LED does not turn on or blink, the network devices or connection cables have problems. Connect the network cable to other ports or use another network cable.
Turn off the router or switching hub and turn it back on.
Your router or switching hub may not work correctly if you re-connect the cable or change the IP address many times over, even though all settings of IP address are correct. Turn off the router or switching hub and turn it back on, this will reset the router or switching hub.
Verify the security settings of access points (only for a wireless connection). Bytespeed laptops & desktops driver.
Access points you are going to connect your PC or the Brother machine to may have the security settings set for restricting access.
- Configure your wireless computer and Brother machine with the same SSID as used for your WLAN access point/router.
- Disable Privacy Separator.
- If you are using MAC address filtering in the WLAN access point/ router, you need to configure your MAC address of your Brother machine.
> Click here to see 'Function settings of your WLAN access point' section in another FAQ and verify the settings.
Verify the settings of all broadband routers and access points (only if a few broadband routers exist on the network).
The settings of all broadband routers and access points may not be configured correctly if more than two broadband routers that have several LAN ports exist on the network as below. Verify that the settings of all broadband routers and access points are configured correctly.
For the detail of changing bridge mode (Off the DHCP function etc.) of broadband routers, contact your broadband routers' manufacturer with the following information or refer to the manuals provided with your broadband router.
- Your Brother machine could not be found over the network from your PC.
- Your PC can access the internet.
- Your Brother machine can connect to the broadband router.
2. Verify the Firewall settings
Windows Users
Macintosh Users
Windows Users
If Windows Firewall or firewall function of security software is active, it may be rejecting the necessary network connection. Change the firewall settings by creating a firewall rule to block except settings or disabling the firewall on your computer.
Temporarily change your firewall/security settings to allow network connection
Your computer's firewall/security software may be preventing the network connection from being established. If you receive firewall-related notifications, we recommend temporarily changing the security settings on your computer to establish the connection.
IMPORTANT
- Before disabling the firewall, make sure the changes you want to make are suitable for your network. Brother will not take any responsibility for any consequences of disabling the firewall.
- When finished, make sure to turn the firewall on again.
After you have finished verifying the above points, try re-installing the driver (Full Driver & Software Package) and verifying whether the devices could be found or not.
If you configure the IP address manually, check Custom Install when you select the network connection and enter the IP address for Specify your machine by address (Advanced Users) when the Network Search Type window appears.
Macintosh Users
For personal Firewall Software users:
(For example, Norton Internet Security™ and McAfee®.)
If firewall function of security software is active, it may be rejecting the necessary network connection. Change the firewall settings by creating a firewall rule to block except settings or disabling the firewall on your computer.
For instructions on how to change or disable this type of program, please refer to the user's guide for your software or contact the software manufacturer.
Before disabling the firewall, make sure you understand the risks involved. Brother will not take any responsibility for what happens to you when disabling the firewall. Please be careful when you change the settings to the most appropriate ones for your environment.
After you have finished verifying the above points, try re-installing the driver (Full Driver & Software Package) and verifying whether the devices could be found or not.
-->The sequence of drivers that participate in an I/O request is called the driver stack for the request. A driver can call into the upper edge of a lower driver in the stack. A driver can also call into the lower edge of a higher driver in the stack.
Before you read this topic, you should understand the ideas presented in Device nodes and device stacks and Driver stacks.
I/O requests are processed first by the top driver in the driver stack, then by the next lower driver, and so on until the request is fully processed.
When a driver implements a set of functions that a higher driver can call, that set of functions is called the upper edge of the driver or the upper-edge interface of the driver.
When a driver implements a set of functions that a lower driver can call, that set of functions is called the lower edge of the driver or the lower-edge interface of the driver.
Audio example
We can think of an audio miniport driver sitting below an audio port driver in a driver stack. The port driver makes calls to the miniport driver's upper edge. The miniport driver makes calls to the port driver's lower edge.
The preceding diagram illustrates that it is sometimes useful to think of a port driver sitting above a miniport driver in a driver stack. Because I/O requests are processed first by the port driver and then by the miniport driver, it is reasonable to think of the port driver as being above the miniport driver. Keep in mind, however, that a (miniport, port) driver pair usually sits at a single level in a device stack, as shown here.
Note that a device stack is not the same thing as a driver stack. For definitions of these terms, and for a discussion of how a pair of drivers can form a single WDM driver that occupies one level in a device stack, see Minidrivers and driver pairs.
Here's another way to draw a diagram of the same device node and device stack:
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In the preceding diagram, we see that the (miniport, port) pair forms a single WDM driver that is associated with a single device object (the FDO) in the device stack; that is, the (miniport, port) pair occupies only one level in the device stack. But we also see a vertical relationship between the miniport and port drivers. The port driver is shown above the miniport driver to indicate that the port driver processes I/O requests first and then calls into the miniport driver for additional processing.
The key point is that when the port driver calls into the miniport driver's upper-edge interface, that is not the same as passing an I/O request down the device stack. In a driver stack (not device stack) you can choose to draw a port driver above a miniport driver, but that does not mean that the port driver is above the miniport driver in the device stack.
NDIS example
Sometimes a driver calls the upper edge of a lower driver indirectly. For example, suppose a TCP/IP protocol driver sits above an NDIS miniport driver in a driver stack. The miniport driver implements a set of MiniportXxx functions that form the miniport driver's upper edge. We say that the TCP/IP protocol driver binds to the upper edge of the NDIS miniport driver. But the TCP/IP driver does not call the MiniportXxx functions directly. Instead, it calls functions in the NDIS library, which then call the MiniportXxx functions.
The preceding diagram shows a driver stack. Here's another view of the same drivers.
The preceding diagram shows the device node for a network interface card (NIC). The device node has a position in the Plug and Play (PnP) device tree. The device node for the NIC has a device stack with three device objects. Notice that the NDIS miniport driver and the NDIS library work as a pair. The pair (MyMiniport.sys, Ndis.sys) forms a single WDM driver that is represented by the functional device object (FDO).
Also notice that the protocol driver Tcpip.sys is not part of the device stack for the NIC. In fact, Tcpip.sys is not part of the PnP device tree at all.
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The terms upper edge and lower edge are used to describe the interfaces that drivers in a stack use to communicate with each other. A driver stack is not the same thing as device stack. Two drivers that are shown vertically in a driver stack might form a driver pair that sits at a single level in a device stack. Some drivers are not part of the PnP device tree.
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