Built In Airport Issue

I have traveled to a colleagues house in the UK and I turned my Macbook on here and I am unable to find any wireless connections. Apparently there are 3 connections that should pop up locally. I was at a hotel earlier in the week and connections was fine. 1 of these connections should be there 2WIRE personal router.
When I turn my laptop on the airport scans but does not find any connections. Most of the time the airport scans for half a second and than stops. Every once in awhile it will scan for approx 3 seconds and than stops. I have turned it on and off as well as restarted several times.
When I open network preferences AIRPORT 2 is yellow.
When I open Airport Utility it scans for 5 seconds and than it says that it cannot find any wireless devices.
Does anyone have any suggestions?

I am wondering if there is a possibility that I need to replace the airport card? Is there a way that I could test this somehow to see if this is the case? Thanks

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Joel,
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Here is my tcpdump, hope you can help.
Last login: Sat Sep 2 11:46:05 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
Orion:~ tarlach$ sudo tcpdump -nni en1
Password:
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on en1, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes
12:54:33.236551 IP 169.254.196.234 > 224.0.0.251: igmp v2 report 224.0.0.251
12:54:33.635688 IP 169.254.196.234.5353 > 224.0.0.251.5353: 0 [5q][|domain]
12:54:33.635896 fe80::20d:93ff:fe84:ba8c.5353 > ff02::fb.5353: 0 [5q][|domain]
12:54:34.647999 IP 169.254.196.234.5353 > 224.0.0.251.5353: 0*- [0q] 9/0/0[|domain]
12:54:34.648258 fe80::20d:93ff:fe84:ba8c.5353 > ff02::fb.5353: 0*- [0q] 9/0/0[|domain]
12:54:35.436941 fe80::20d:93ff:fe84:ba8c > ff02::fb: HBH icmp6: multicast listener report max resp delay: 0 addr: ff02::fb [hlim 1]
12:54:35.648474 IP 0.0.0.0.68 > 255.255.255.255.67: BOOTP/DHCP, Request from 00:0d:93:84:ba:8c, length: 300
12:54:35.954863 fe80::20d:93ff:fe84:ba8c > ff02::2: icmp6: router solicitation
12:54:41.635570 IP 169.254.196.234.5353 > 224.0.0.251.5353: 0 [5q][|domain]
12:54:41.635820 fe80::20d:93ff:fe84:ba8c.5353 > ff02::fb.5353: 0 [5q][|domain]
12:54:42.647940 IP 169.254.196.234.5353 > 224.0.0.251.5353: 0*- [0q] 9/0/0[|domain]
12:54:42.648177 fe80::20d:93ff:fe84:ba8c.5353 > ff02::fb.5353: 0*- [0q] 9/0/0[|domain]
12:54:43.804966 IP 192.168.2.4.631 > 192.168.2.255.631: UDP, length: 112
12:54:44.472343 fe80::20d:93ff:fe84:ba8c > ff02::2: icmp6: router solicitation
12:54:44.534688 IP 0.0.0.0.68 > 255.255.255.255.67: BOOTP/DHCP, Request from 00:0d:93:84:ba:8c, length: 300
12:54:52.940381 fe80::20d:93ff:fe84:ba8c > ff02::2: icmp6: router solicitation
12:54:53.020918 IP 192.168.2.4.631 > 192.168.2.255.631: UDP, length: 83
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12:54:53.457981 IP 0.0.0.0.68 > 255.255.255.255.67: BOOTP/DHCP, Request from 00:0d:93:84:ba:8c, length: 300
12:54:53.458573 arp reply 192.168.2.1 is-at 00:11:50:4f:4a:40
12:54:55.785686 IP 192.168.2.4.631 > 192.168.2.255.631: UDP, length: 76
12:54:57.635663 IP 169.254.196.234.5353 > 224.0.0.251.5353: 0 [5q][|domain]
12:54:57.635911 fe80::20d:93ff:fe84:ba8c.5353 > ff02::fb.5353: 0 [5q][|domain]
12:54:58.646996 IP 169.254.196.234.5353 > 224.0.0.251.5353: 0*- [0q] 9/0/0[|domain]
12:54:58.647240 fe80::20d:93ff:fe84:ba8c.5353 > ff02::fb.5353: 0*- [0q] 9/0/0[|domain]
12:55:01.016643 fe80::20d:93ff:fe84:ba8c > ff02::2: icmp6: router solicitation
12:55:02.149064 IP 0.0.0.0.68 > 255.255.255.255.67: BOOTP/DHCP, Request from 00:0d:93:84:ba:8c, length: 300
12:55:09.439854 fe80::20d:93ff:fe84:ba8c > ff02::2: icmp6: router solicitation
12:55:10.767834 IP 0.0.0.0.68 > 255.255.255.255.67: BOOTP/DHCP, Request from 00:0d:93:84:ba:8c, length: 300
12:55:15.139955 IP 192.168.2.4.631 > 192.168.2.255.631: UDP, length: 112
12:55:17.499395 fe80::20d:93ff:fe84:ba8c > ff02::2: icmp6: router solicitation
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12:55:25.597876 fe80::20d:93ff:fe84:ba8c > ff02::2: icmp6: router solicitation
12:55:27.120694 IP 192.168.2.4.631 > 192.168.2.255.631: UDP, length: 76
12:55:29.634050 IP 169.254.196.234.5353 > 224.0.0.251.5353: 0 [5q][|domain]
12:55:29.634282 fe80::20d:93ff:fe84:ba8c.5353 > ff02::fb.5353: 0 [5q][|domain]
12:55:30.646358 IP 169.254.196.234.5353 > 224.0.0.251.5353: 0*- [0q] 9/0/0[|domain]
12:55:30.646601 fe80::20d:93ff:fe84:ba8c.5353 > ff02::fb.5353: 0*- [0q] 9/0/0[|domain]
12:55:34.186230 IP 192.168.2.2.5353 > 224.0.0.251.5353: 0 [2q] PTR? daap.tcp.local. PTR? raop.tcp.local. (46)
12:55:55.076547 IP 192.168.2.4.631 > 192.168.2.255.631: UDP, length: 83
I cut it off as it seemed to want to just keep running.
I am unable to get online in my own wep network, I can connect and get a strong signal b ut that is all.
Please, if you can, help.
thank yhou

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