Cannot find wireless network adapter - Satellite A100-467

Hi,
I have Toshiba Satellite A100-467 running Windows 7 on it.
Yesterday I put my notebook to hibernation and when it woke up wireless network was not working.
I checked Device Manager and there is no wireless network adapter available, seems it is not enumerated by the system.
I have tried to download and reinstall drivers for Wireless network but without success.
Any suggestion?

I launched windows Backup and Recovery tool to see whether some software change had not disabled wifi adapter, that is what I meant.
There is no Ethernet Controller in Device Manager, nothing pointing to Wireless adapter.
I have tried to remove battery already before but it did not help. Tried again today with the same result.
Today my Wifi was suddenly working for a while, that made me think it would be probably a hardware issue, maybe something moved inside. I just wanted to rule out software issues before I send it to repair.
Now it is where it was before, not even displaying in Device Manager.

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