Help! Airport Status Off

Hi all!
this weekend my AirPort started having problems. The AirPort icon suddenly showed that the AirPort status was off and, obviously, internet connectivity went down. Following is a list of troubleshooting steps I already took but without any success:
- went to Network Settings and hit the button 'Turn AirPort On' -> nothing happens.
- restarted Mac -> working fine initially but issue was back after a while
- hard-reset of the TimeCapsule -> problems persisted
- downgrade of the firmware of the TC to 3.2 -> problems persisted
- powered-on a PC laptop -> no problems with the PC, wireless always available.
- connected through a Linksys wireless router -> same issue
- reset of the MAC's PRAM and NVRAM -> issue persists
I have no idea what else to try. Any suggestions are very welcomed!
I've been doing all software upgrades and, recently, there was a major one. However, no upgrades were performed this weekend and no issues were found right after the last upgrade...
Can you please help me?
Thanks in advance
Eduardo

Download iStumbler, www.istumbler.net to let a look at the signal strength and noise on your wireless network.
You can also identify other networks that may likely be interfering with your wireless. Check to see what channel they are using and compare to your channel. Any network within a few channels can be causing problems on your wireless.
If you find this to be the case, use AirPort Utility to change your channel to a value that is as far away as possible from other channels.
From your post, it is also possible that your wireless card or the internal connection to your antenna may have an intermittent problem. If iStumbler doesn't help, your next step should be to have your laptop checked out at a repair center.

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