Satellite Pro A10 - No wireless adapter not shown in device manager

Can you Help - Toshiba Satellite Pro A10
Model No PSA15E-01PFQ-EN
Serial No Y3602494G
Windows XP Pro
On the front of this laptop is a switch for wireless - this switch is set to On, Windows XP Pro cannot find any wireless device - Windows Device Manager does not show any wireless adater. Can you advice please - do I need to install Driver - Does this laptop support a wireless conection?
Many Thanks
Owen

Hi
Usually if you have a wireless switch your notebook should have a wireless LAN card too. In your case I would try installing the driver. Then the WLAn card should be displayed in device manager properly:
http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com > Support & Downloads > Download Drivers
If this doesnt work you can try a BIOS update.
Are you running factory settings or have you installed your own Windows version?

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