Won't enable wireless on my iMac

Hello everyone.
I have always used my ethernet cable from the beginning, so missing my wireless bar in the top right corner of my screen wasn't a problem.
Now my iMac is no longe within range of a cable and so i need to use my wireless.
however i cannot enable it. When in "network" i can only make a new network using "Ethernet" "Firewire" or "bluetooth"
i find this rather weird since an iMac by standarts should be able to use wireless, right?
do any of you have a solution to this problem?
- Mikkel

Click on the Apple menu in the upper left hand corner, and choose about this Mac. Then choose "More Info", next choose Airport from the Network drop-down on the left hand side. If the system profiler comes up with "No Information Found." then your Airport Extreme card is not being recognized.
Did you custom configure your iMac, or is it a stock model?

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