I'll let our SuSE users who know much more than I about wireless chime in, but it does seem possible to get the wireless working, based on:
* https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/T...atelliteL40-14N

You do have "company" in finding difficulty to get this Laptop's wireless to work, ... for example this Ubuntu user:
http://guaka.org/code/toshiba-l40-157/