[sigio]

This got me to finally put effort into upgrading the firmware on my brother printer, which was still running stock firmware. There was only a password-entry, and that didn't let me access anything. After running Brothers updater in a VM, and sharing the usb-device, I managed to upgrade the printer. However, still no login, and now I need to get it reconnected to my wifi, ugh.

Try entering a long wifi-password via the 1-line lcd and 2 buttons on the printer, what a nightmare. (No way to configure via usb). Oh well, I still have a couple of days before I need to print a bunch of documents, so there goes the weekend ;)

[gucci-on-fleek]

> Try entering a long wifi-password via the 1-line lcd and 2 buttons on the printer, what a nightmare.

I used the WPS button method [0] to set up my Brother printers and it worked perfectly for me. Definitely much more pleasant than trying to key in a long password.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Protected_Setup

[wps]

My router doesn’t have a WPS button, so I also had to use the two button interface. Not fun having to cycle through some 50 plus ASCII characters for the WiFi password. I’m pretty sure you can emulate the button press in openwrt with some package though. It was faster to just enter the password than to figure all that out.