I can't connect my printer to my laptop

Sir/Madam

If You Having Problem In Your Brother Printer Connecting To Your Laptop then You Do Not Need To Purchase any Thing,Make sure You Have Bluetooth And WiFi In Your Laptop and Necessary Brother Printer Drivers, Otherwise Please Download Brother Printer Driver From Official Brother Printer Website,

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brother.... u need to upgrade ur ipaq n ur destop manneger ...den it would detect it .. hope it helps u ... let me knw wat happns..

This model Bother printer has a 10baseT LAN connection and can be connected to your LAN network and to your HP laptop via the wireless router. Connect a LAN cable from the printer to the wireless router.
To print from your HP laptop, check the IP address range your wireless router issues to your wireless network, it maybe 192.168.1.*** then configure the brother printer with a fixed IP address with the same IP address range but higher address eg. 192.168.1.10 so it does not clash with any other IP addresses.
Next install the Brother printer driver normally.
Then configure the Brother printer Properties.
Click Start - Printers and faxes - right click on the Brother printer - click Properties - Port tab - click Add Port - Standard TCP/IP port -
Port Name eg. 192.168.1.10
Printer name eg Brother
Click OK
Then do a TEST print if it does not work then the IP address is probably incorrect.

Go to brother.com and they have free downloads for your computer to connect to the printer.

try to search the printer..and it will appear then click add printer..then try to connect again the printer.

Not sure if your answer is correct, As I said Windows update thought it was downloading the correct driver and it didn't work correctly. I don;t want to say your link isn't helpfull, But I followed another suggestion and installed the Windows Vista Suite for the Brother MFC-5840CN all in one.and it not only fixed the problem it also installed all the multifunction drivers and software.So I am good for now. Thank you for responding to my delema. In case someone else needs it, Here it is.

http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public/us/us/en/dlf/download_index.html?reg=us&c=us&lang=en&prod=mfc5840cn_all&dlid=&flang=English&os=74&type2=-1

a deffective built-in wireless donggle or a wireless module be replaced

Click on this below link.
click here
Then you can download manual ,driver from it.
Let me know if you need further assistance.
thanks for using Fixya.

Please make sure that printer is turn on, before doing ensure you do power cycle of printer.

Add printer on Standard TCP/IP port.

I assume it's a Brother printer not your brother's printer right? I have an HP and it's a wireless printer which is accessible through my network, you have to install the printer driver and software on to the other laptop that is connected wirelessly to your network.