Satellite L500-19X - no wireless network adapter

Laptop says can only connect to the internet with an ethernet cable (how I'm connected now). After looking online at different forums I have tried everything that's been said, like install the wireless LAN driver, but nothing seems to work.
The only thing in the network adapters, in the device manager, is "Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller". So therefore no wireless one.
What should I do?

I did write exactly what I done but I won't let me post it for some reason!
Basically, downloaded zip folder, opened file inside, went through everything and said it would open setup automatically.
It didn't open automatically, so I opened the setup manually going through the C drive. Opened that file, went through and installed everything. It said it's successfully installed but still can't search for wireless networks and nothing has changed in the device manager.

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It's possible, but it might be a lot more work to do so. It all depends on how soon you need to get it fixed. I'm not a network specialist so I can't really offer much in the way of assistance other than what I already did. It's possible someone else might have other ideas, but since you didn't post this in the Networking and WiFi Forum where it belongs it's quite possible that those networking specialists will never even see your post to respond to it. I know that I rarely go into the Networking Forum as it isn't my strong suit.
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