Satellite R630 - No wireless adapter found

Hi
I got the Satellite R630 just last week and installed firstly the included windows seven.
After getting used to the system (I'm usually on Linux) I recognised, that there was no wireless lan connection available and no possibility to start the wireless lan.
I've read, that the shortcut FN+F8 the wireless connections starts, so in my case it is the bluetooth and the wireless lan, but every time I pressed these just the bluetooth would start.
Than I looked up in the hardware manager and under networks (or something like that) was just the lan-adapter listed, so I than looked up in the systeminformations, where under components the wl-adapter is listed.
There it is listed as Atheros AR9285, and it also is written there, that the drivers are installed and the adapter could be used.
But why can't I just switch it on? And why is it, that the adapter is not listed in the hardware manager?
Anyone up with a solution?

I have R630-11L with a Broadcom Card.
I have had different problem witht the laptop not being able to connect to my Router. I finally was able to solve the problem and during this process, I had to install / uninstall the driver for the Broadcom several times. Thus, I hope my experience below will help you out.
1- When I unistalled the driver for the Broadcom, the bluetooth seems not to get affected by the process. Ethernet cable works as well.
2- According to Broadcom website, it is better to uninstall from Add/Remove programs, and not from Device Manager
3- Installing as an administrator seems to solve more problems, but maybe I'm mistaken on that
4- The driver can only be downloaded from Toshiba Website (U can usee the software that came with your laptop to access the driver update pages). The driver can not be found on Broadcom webpage
Now here's the bad part:
If you re-install on an existing driver, the driver wil work fine. However, if you completely remove the driver and have a fresh installation, the wireless network card will appear grayed out and disabled. Trying to enable always fails despite a false message saying it is enabled. I have all what I know to enable it, but didn't work out.
Bottom line, I was not able to run the wireless network card by fresh installation of the driver.
I couldn't figure out why.
I had to restore my system to a working point using System Restore and in Safe Mode.
Luckily I was able to solve my connection problem by tweaking some settings. However, I hope I don't face the problem of dealing with the driver again as it was not a pleasant experience.
My suggestion is to see a Toshiba Technician for proper setting / installation.
Thank You and Good Luck.

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