Airport card is no longer reconised

hi the guys and girls, basically i have have my laptop for more than 3 years now and it has worked seamlessly up until the last 6 months and just recently it has decided to not reconise the inbuilt Airport extreme card that was inbuilt at purchase (so can't be a dodgey fitting on my behalf and it has work for 3 years no probs but no suddenly) it doesn't show up in about mac> more info and it said in my network options that the airport card doesn't exisit
does anyboady no of what is causing this and how i can resolve the problem cus i hate using a cable by the router in the hall way XD

Same thing happened to me. I haven't taken it in yet but was thinking about it. If anyone has any ideas as to software loads or updates that might have caused this to "unrecognized" to happen, I am all ears.

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