Question Toshiba Satellite E55-A Not Recognizing it's Wireless Network Adapter

[DolphinThighs]

My Toshiba Laptop is not recognizing that it has a wireless network adapter installed. Going to Device Manager > Network adapters only shows Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller. I've tried "Scan for hardware changes", tried multiple reboots/restarts, and the laptop is plugged in and fully charged while troubleshooting. Not able to find a solution to this issue yet, any help is appreciated.

 

[rgd1101]

show on device manager?

 

[DolphinThighs]

show on device manager?

No, the wireless network adapter does not show up under device manager. That's whats causing the issue since I cant check for drivers or anything since the laptop doesn't think the adapter exists

 

[harsha_mnh]

restart the laptop and go to the bios program then check wifi adapter status. If the wifi adapter disabled from bios program. device manager will not show the wifi adapter.
Check further information for this issue. https://techmans.blogspot.com/2019/04/wifi-adapter-not-showing-in-windows.html

 

[digitalgriffin]

Toshibas have several design problems on their laptops that I know existed up to Haswell (possibly later). Quite simply the Realtek audio and NGFF wifi cards would simply overheat or burnout. Not one person I know didn't have this issue and tech support never addressed it in their support forums. They knew it was a problem.

If you can't get the card to be seen, a $15 nano USB wifi receiver will work as a suitable replacement.