Inability to Make use of Air Port Extreme

I'm a new Mac Book user who purchased an Air Port Extreme card side-by-side with my Mac Book in hopes that I would be able to use the card to extend my wireless range for the purposes of use at University.
I have had my Mac Book at home for 3 more days than the Air Port Extreme card, as it arrived via a different shipping company, and have thus far been loving the seamlesness of my internet connectivity. Today, the Air Port Extreme card arrived, and being inexperienced with computers as I am, I assumed there would be a place on the Mac Book itself to plug it in. However, discovering the fact that I was so obviously wrong, I did some exploration in the user manual and found out that if one ordered the card with their lap top, it was apparently installed. So, my first question is:
Do I have a physical use for this Air Port Extreme card with my Mac Book, or perhaps have I ordered it under the false assumption that I'd be able to use it with my Mac Book?
Furthermore, I went on to install the Air Port Extreme software packaged with the card on to the computer, and now have Air Port (Extreme) 4.2 on my laptop. However, when I attempt to use the set up client, I encounter the following:
"In order to use the AirPort Setup Assistant your AirPort card must be enabled and AirPort needs to be turned on and set to use DHCP. Click OK if you would like to change these settings, or Skip if you would like to configure AirPort Base Stations using ethernet."
Furthermore, when I click OK, the following comes up:
"There was an error communicating with your AirPort card. Please make sure it is installed properly and try the AirPort Setup Assistant again."
I went through the install and reset process, and it seems as if I'm being told I haven't done enough installation or set up to make use of the Air Port Extreme internet connection.
Can someone give some help as to how to circumvent this problem? Is there a physical use for the Air Port Extreme card I'm ignorantly missing? Somewhere to plug it in? Have I ordered it under a false assumption I could use it for my Mac Book? Or is it a matter of tweaking my network preferences?

Hello Eli Cyment. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
I have had my Mac Book at home for 3 more days than the Air Port Extreme card, as it arrived via a different shipping company, and have thus far been loving the seamlesness of my internet connectivity. Today, the Air Port Extreme card arrived, and being inexperienced with computers as I am, I assumed there would be a place on the Mac Book itself to plug it in.
All of the new MacBooks come with an AirPort Extreme card built-in so, unfortunately, ordering the card was unnecessary.
Do I have a physical use for this Air Port Extreme card with my Mac Book, or perhaps have I ordered it under the false assumption that I'd be able to use it with my Mac Book?
No, and Yes.
"In order to use the AirPort Setup Assistant your AirPort card must be enabled and AirPort needs to be turned on and set to use DHCP. Click OK if you would like to change these settings, or Skip if you would like to configure AirPort Base Stations using ethernet."
This is basically telling you that the AirPort Setup Assistant required that the AirPort card be enabled in order to use it to setup an AirPort base station. Do you currently have and are using an AirPort base station for your Internet access?
You should also have either the "AirPort Admin Utility" and/or the "AirPort Utility" (note the missing word "Admin") in your \Applications\Utilities folder. Which one(s) do you have?

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