Toshiba Satellite SPA40 - WLAN adapter not found on Windows XP?

Knows jmd. The notebook model? Had this from the known wg. Ramsomware set up and now find that no wireless adapter in the network settings is displayed, but there's no yellow question mark in the Device Manager under Windows XP - ie a hardware that still lacks a driver.

I'm really surprised. If I press the FN key + F8 on the keyboard, then nothing happens although actually WLAN would have to be activated on the laptop.

I found drivers on the Toshiba side but I do not know how to install the WLAN card or how it is called and its manufacturer.

Is the search worthwhile or should I recommend the acquaintance immediately to buy an external WLAN stick?

Did you re-record all motherboard and network drivers? The WLAN will be onboard and runs over a MB driver

Hi and thanks for your answer. Have all the drivers from the Toshiba website freshly downloaded and no other can find. I found the wi-fi driver there, but I do not have the appropriate hardware available.

Say, in Device Manager there are no yellow question mark devices and I do not know what to look for or how to manually install the wireless driver. There's no installation routine in the zip package.

But you already know that XP has not been supported for years, probably the reason for the attack? You will hardly be able to install any reasonably current driver under XP, away with it.

Hi, thanks for your reply. I realize that, and if it were my laptop, then I would use it too, but without internet access.)

No, the problem is that it only has 2GB of RAM and a 40GB hard drive. So for Win7 and 10 way too weak, so that's all else. Yes, he still has to live with the attacks, after all, I have now put an image on an external HD so that the effort is only minutes, rather than hours now, to get the system up again should there be an attack again.

And again me. Unfortunately I could not find MB drivers from the chipset driver. In Toshiba forum I read that apparently the A40 would not have an antenna… Here it is the SPA40 - but can also be the same thing. Hmm, he went so far only over the WLAN in the net.

WLAN problem explainable - laptop does not actually have an antenna but a WLAN stick is used. Thus, the topic has settled.