Airport Card : Not seeing Airport intermittently

Using 10.4.11, my Powermac G4 sometimes does not recognize Airport-on status bar- usually after a restart . It has to be enabled by clicking Netgear. Works impeccable then.
Anything to do, with login items like Mail ? Or Temperature Monitor ? Or the ISP who have upgraded recently the Internet speed ?
Rather frustrating operation. Does not happen on the other Panther Drive. PC Laptop works flawlessly remotely.
I have reset PRAM, PMU and changed the battery without success.
Not paid much attention to Airport software updates. Any other suggestions ?
Thanks for responding

Perhaps it is just a minor issue like a loose cable from the card to the antenna, so no signal reaches the card overall.
However checking requires opening the computer, so you may do so only if you feel yourself capable doing so. You may check out the guides at http://www.ifixit.com for your computer model.

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