I have tried all fixes posted so far and still I have no hardware installed!

Hi ...I have a 2008 dual core Imac 27" since upgrading to lion...I have had all the symptoms(dropped connections ..unstable airport)  everyone else has and then after upgrading to 10.7.3 I now have lost my airport signal all together! I have tried everything everyone has posted and still when I tap the icon on the top of the screen it tells me "no hardware installed". What I did to escape this is ...erase a partition that was set up for bootcamp (which i never used) and then install the discs that came with the computer on that partition...then I upgraded to snow leopard (another disc I had)  and when I restart in this partition everything is fine...I have my airport connection ..no drops ...speedy browser etc.....but when I go back to Lion it still has no airport.....I tried a suggestion someone made about delete wifi in network settings and then add again ..so i tried this and thank god I had two locations set up because under that location I can not add wifi...because it is not recognized means it it is not there hence the computer gives me no option to add it again.
I noticed there was an update that people were saying was a fix, but unfortunately it is only for 2009 imacs and up. Does anyone think they will address that this is also effecting models before 2009?

You would restart the computer while holding Command R, which should bring you to Lion Recovery, provided that it installed correctly when you installed Lion.
Lion Recovery has the wifi icon in the upper right corner; if it recognizes your Airport card, then Lion should use your Airport card just fine, and your OS may simply need to be reinstalled to resolve your issue. Lion Recovery can't reinstall Lion without Internet, so it will prompt you to connect to wifi or use Ethernet.
I would get a firewire external HDD for backing up with Time Machine.
For Lion Recovery, here are the step-by-step instructions:
1. restart holding Command R until you get a gray screen with an Apple and a spinning gear
2. choose english as the main language and click the arrow pointing to the right
3. in the top right corner of the Lion Recovery screen, click on the gray wifi icon and select your desired network, providing the password as necessary
At this point, if Lion Recovery sees your Airport card, it should allow you to connect to your network; if it doesn't see it, then you may need to use your original install discs that came with the computer to erase and install. Let's assume that wifi works in Lion Recovery. Then:
4. select "reinstall" and click "continue"
5. follow prompts to reinstall Lion on your Mac HD
If the issue persists when booted to Mac HD after reinstalling Lion, then erase/install:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.7/en/mh27903.html

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