Airport card missing after 10.6.5

Yesterday I updated to 10.6.5. Today afternoon my MacBook pro suddenly hung on me and became completely non responsive to keyboard mouse or trackpad. Only option I had was to shutdown using power button. When I rebooted my airport card was not detected anymore. Tried reset smc and no dice. Uninstalled from network options but now I when try to reinstall no airport card option available. Not detected by airport utility. Tried repair permissions as well. Desperately looking for solutions.

Do you have a Time machine backup you can go back to ? I would recommend going by an Apple Store and have them look at it.

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Ezz wrote:
Ok, I just installed the Login & Keychain update 1.0 from the software update and after rebooting my Airpot card does not get recognized anymore. This really ***** Apple!
Anyone else encountered this problem? Any known solution yet?!
Message was edited by: Ezz
Judging by the amount of posts it must be isolated. Mine works fine. Did you repair permissions ?
" Keychain-Administration or Privilege Issues after Upgrading to Leopard:
If after installing Leopard as an upgrade or archive and install you experience any issues with not getting mail, can't run Disk Utility, can't login as administrator, can't print or anything that entering existing User name and/or passwords requires, you are not alone and Apple is working on it now.
The fastest method of determining if you have been bitten by this, open System Preferences, click on Accounts and verify that you are the Administrator as opposed to Standard, and that the checkbox asking if you want this user to be an Administrator is checked. If you are Standard, and the box is unchecked and/or greyed out, you have a situation most likely, whether you know it or not, yet.
Further verification can be done in the Accounts window by clicking the lock to make changes, entering your name and password and being denied access.
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Hello everybody,
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1411

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HI,
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http://support.apple.com/downloads/MacOS_X_10_5_8_ComboUpdate
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****.

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Deleting the keychain with Keychain access worked.
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Hello,
I have a black macbook with an internal airport extreme wireless card. I use the computer at school and at home. Both school and home have functioning wireless networks in which other computers are connected and running with no problems.
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Add Preferred Network(s)
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