This process won't affect your personal files, only Windows and programs settings. Your computer will now restart Wait for a few minutes while your computer is restoring settings. To confirm, press Next and then Finish 7. Select a date when you know your computer worked fine 6. You can also tick a box that says Show more restore points (if available) 5. You should see a list of restore points based on a date. Select Choose a different restore point and press Next 4. You will be given a choice to either select Recommended restore or Choose a different restore point 3. Click Start and type system restore into search box and press Enter 2. Option #2: Perform System Restore to restore Windows 7 to an earlier point in time, when WiFi worked fine.
Now re-install both Toshiba HW Setup Utility and Wi-Fi drivers, either using driver disc or Toshiba web site.
Tick a box to delete the driver software as well, if you have that option. There expand Network adapters group, find your Wi-Fi adapter, press right-click on its name and choose Uninstall. Then click on Device Manager located on the left side.
Simply press right click on Computer icon and choose Manage.
If you can't locate Wi-Fi drivers on the list of installed programs, you can uninstall them using Device Manager. You can uninstall Toshiba HW Setup Utility and Wi-Fi drivers in Control Panel > Uninstall a program. If you don't have a driver disc, go to Toshiba website - download area, accessible from THIS LINK. Here is what you can do next: Option #1: Uninstall both Toshiba HW Setup Utility and Wi-Fi drivers and then re-install them. If not, it should now be possible to turn wireless devices on and off with the Fn+F8 hotkey combination I hope that helps! WiFi should work after you restart a computer. Click the Yes button on the "Reboot the machine now?" message box, to restart Windows 5. Click ON in the Wireless Communication Switch section, then click the OK button. In the HWSetup utility, click the LAN tab 3. If you have Windows 7, just type HWSetup into start search bar to run it 2.
Click the Windows Start button, then Control Panel, Printers and Other Hardware, and finally Toshiba HWSetup. If that is the case, do the following: 1. Normally, if you actually have WiFi switch, it is located on the front side, as shown on this picture: Alternatively, it could be on the rear side: However, if you don't have a physical WiFi switch, then that control is implemented in the Toshiba HWSetup utility. Depending on your Toshiba Satellite model, there could be a physical WiFi switch so you will need to use that switch to enable the WiFi function. From that point on you should have WiFi regardless of the position of the RF switch.Hello! My name is XXXXX XXXXX I will assist you solve your problem. Cover this pin with insulator and reassemble your laptop. Just Google "pin 20 wan card" or something. I write this from a mobile phone, and being too lazy to look it up and to add more links. I apologize for not providing any links and pictures. That pin is controlled by the WiFi on/off switch, and if it gets "high" logic level, the Wireless communication would be disabled. It would be either "stuck" on either "off" or "on".įor this repair you'll need to take the WiFi card out (Located underneath the keyboard in the Satellite series) and to mask pin number 20. The downside for that is that you lose the ability to toggle the WiFi. I didn't manage to fix it, but got a way to bypass it. The mechanism just stayed stuck disabling the WiFi.
It might have to do with a BIOS update I've done, yet I can't remember weather the update was the cause or just one of my attempts to solve this issue.Įither way, it didn't work. It just stopped working for some unknown reason. Go to the Start Menu and select Control Panel.
If there is no Wi-Fi option present, follow Unable to detect any wireless networks in range Window 7, 8, and 10 or Fix Wi-Fi connection issues in Windows. In the model with which I had the problem there was no physical switch, but a key combination involving the Fn key, that relies on a certain utility by Toshiba. Slide Wi-Fi On, then available networks will be listed. As far as I know the problem isn't with the card itself nor it's driver, but with the "Wireless on/off switch". I had that issue as well with Toshiba Satellite.