Airport Card not connecting to existing network

New to wireless and to these forums, although i have found them useful in the past this is my first posting.
I have just installed a new airport extreme card into my imac, prior to this i installed the software.
the airport card seems fine, the mac recognises it, it does not however see the wireless router. (netgear dg834pn). The router is configured ok as my laptop (Macbook Pro) and my wifes laptop (dell pc) work fine with it.
how do i make the imac see the network?
any help would be appreciated.

ukdave, Welcome to the discussion area!
Verify that the antenna wire is properly connected to the AirPort Extreme card. Compare you installation to the photos in KB 108039, Properly attaching the antenna on an AirPort Extreme Card.
Also... is there any chance that you have installed an AirPort Extreme card from the US? The US cards only recognize channels 1-11. If your Netgear is using channels 12 or 13 try changing it to a channel between 1 and 11.

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