MacBook Airport card: Where is it?

My daughter's MacBook Airport has ceased to function. One of the trouble shooting recommendations is to re-seat the card but I cannot find where the card is so that I can re-seat it. Does anyone have instructions about how to get to the Airport card?

First of all, thanks, but it does look extremely complicated and I don't think I'll try it.
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I have a new MacBook. At no time has the airport card made its presence felt. In System Profiler, it says re Airport Card 'No information found'. On Network Port Configurations, Airport is grayed out so is unresponsive.
The MacBook is located adjacent to an active 802.11 Netgear router. An adjacent G5 desktop machine receives strong wireless signals from the same router. The MacBook is able to log onto the Web via a built-in ethernet link to the same router.
According to Apple, Airport is standard on this model, hence my confusion. What advice can you give me? Is there some straightforward set-up procedure that I can follow, to avoid having to return the MacBok to the supplier 130 miles away?
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Last night, I was playing with my iPhone 4 hotspot with my macbook unibody. Out of the blue, my macbook freeze while connecting with wireless hotspot. So what else can I do, I hard press the button and restart my macbook. Upon restart, it show NO AIRPORT CARD INSTALLED. So now I go and check my network preference, and I did not see airport listed on the left pane, I click + to add it, but no airport option. Weird... I regret with that iphone hotspot which now created problem with my macbook airport.
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Is that hard press to shut down macbook disturbed every airport setting?
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Pull down the Apple menu, select "About This Mac", then click on "More Info". In the column on the left look for "Network" and within that, "AirPort". Click on that. If you see a lot of details about your AirPort card, then there's nothing wrong with your AirPort hardware.
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5) In the same panel, select the AirPort connection item, click the "Advanced" button, select the "TCP/IP" tab, then click "Renew DHCP Lease". Note that the fix this step implements may be temporary.
6) In the folder /Library/Preferences ( _not_ <yourhomefolder>/Library/Preferences), move the folder SystemConfiguration onto the Desktop, then restart your computer. See if you can now make your AirPort connection work.
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I was online checking email, doing nothing out of the ordinary, when all of a sudden my computer froze. There was no spinning wheel; the computer was completely unresponsive. I manually powered it off, and when I turned it back on and found that I could not connect to the internet. I clicked the AirPort icon and the dropdown said "No AirPort card installed."
I reset the PRAM. I did an SMC reset. I reformatted the hard drive and reinstalled OS X. I did both the standard and extended Apple Hardware Tests and there was "No trouble found."
In System Profiler, under Network > AirPort, the various Software Versions are listed. However, AirPort is not listed under Network > Active Services. In System Preferences > Network, AirPort is "Off" and when I attempt to turn it on, nothing happens. If I delete the AiPort connection and try to add a new one, "AirPort" does not appear in the interface dropdown menu. I tried turning AirPort on via Terminal using the command "sudo ifconfig en1 up" and received the message "ifconfig: interface en1 does not exist".
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As I understand it, the SMC and PRAM are actual chips on the logic board, and the resets restore them to their original factory values. That's about all I know to say about them since I'm not an IT person and have very little troubleshooting experience myself.
I'm not familiar with the term NIC. Is this the same as the airport card?
http://www.powerbookmedic.com/13-MacBook-Airport-Card-p-17152.html
If so, it should be easy to locate on the logic board as it's pretty large. I don't know if the same card is used in both of your 13" Macs or not--You would need to research that for yourself. However, it seems like in many cases, replacing the card didn't seem to work, although you could always inspect it to be sure the antenna is well seated. I'm not familiar with the 13" card, but the card in my 17" MBP actually has 2 antennas.
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I have a mid 2009 15" Macbook Pro that does not recognize there is an Airport card installed.

I bought the Macbook Pro secondhand and I'm sure I saw the Airport Icon when I first booted up, but then I did a clean install of 10.8 and since then I can not get Airport turned on again. The machine had damage to the clutch cover so I assumed the Airport card was faulty and replaced it but no joy, I then sourced a new WiFi / Camera cable and plugged that into the motherboard and tried each of the cards and still nothing. I've used Detectnewhardware and edited locations and still nothing. I am assuming that if the card was detected then I'd see the Airport option come up in Network settings but nothing I do triggers that. One thing I noticed is that with both cards and cables when connected in any combination the Airport card gets hot very quickly, which I find strange given it's allegedly not turned on.
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I've also tried a USB WiFi dongle and that doesn't do anything either, but I think that could be a driver issue.
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Hi everyone, I've had this issue with my MacBook and I really don't know what to do anymore right now, so I hope someone here could give some advice.
Last week my Wifi stopped working properly. I noticed that nothing connected anymore, and then it turned out that the whole Wi-Fi dialogue became unresponsive. The list of networks didn't update, it was continuously scanning for networks, and in the network preferences, the Wi-Fi showed up as being off. Clicking the button to turn it back on didn't do anything (it wasn't greyed out, I could click on everything).
I came to the conclusion that this seemed to happen only when I moved the MacBook. The WiFi was fine when I just sat at my desk all day, but most of the time when I went to another room with it, this happened.
I was on the phone with Apple support for a few days. They suggested several things to test. We tested, we waited, I observed, we tested again, waited observed. Needless to say, the problem persisted. After a few days I was advised to reset my MacBook completely. So I did, waited observed, and it still happened.
I was then advised to go to the Apple store. I spoke to a Genius, he told me that the Bluetooth wasn't working and that it's probably the same issue. He told me they would replace the AirPort card and that would probably fix the issue. Several days later I got a call that this didn't fix the issue and that they would have to replace the logic board. At this point I had to keep telling the people from the Apple store what the actual problem was, which is that the WiFi stopped working after a while when I moved my MacBook sometimes. They kept reassuring me that it was the same as the Bluetooth and kept referring to the Bluetooth in all communication. I asked them to test the WiFi first, which they obviously didn't do, since they didn't know that was the issue, before I authorized replacing the logic board. They said ok and that they would call me before the store closes on the same day.
Well I didn't hear from them, and eventually after a few days when I called them to see what's happening with it, they told me they replaced the logic board and that it was all working. I picked it up, I went home, I used it for a couple of hours and then the WiFi thing happened again. So this is where I'm at right now.
So, where do I go from here?
I am really dependent on my MacBook atm, as I'm finishing up my PhD thesis. I'm also not rich, so I can't have all parts of my MacBook be replaced to see if anything ends up working. I figure I might as well buy a new one if that's the only possibility?
Every Apple employee I've been in contact with was really friendly, so I can't complain about that, but I feel like nobody is really looking at the actual issue that I'm having, so handing the MacBook in for repairs again really worries me (apart from the fact that it takes a lot of time that I shouldn't spend if nothing comes out of it).
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OK totally understand that.
Did they do the following procedures?
Reset SMC
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295
Reset NVRAM
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063
"nobody has informed me of the whole truth of what has actually been done to the MacBook "
It would seem to me that if there was a logic board problem that it would be consistantly there. If moving the MBP causes a failure that would seem to be a connection problem. Specifically the connection to the WiFi/BlueTooth board.
Have the Apple Hardware test ready to run:
OS X Yosemite: Use Apple Diagnostics or Apple Hardware Test
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I should clarify ... I had this same problem on the old drive but only after restarting from boot camp. But an old platter hard drive is simply too slow to bother with boot camp for my needs, so I just went back to OS X only.
It hasn't been an issue since last Christmas when I first noticed it. Since then, I've had every single part of this Macbook Pro replaced except for the battery, battery cover, and back panel plate. Some components were replaced multiple times. But it's not been a problem because I haven't been using boot camp.
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Thanks for testing it out on your systems. Was just curious if anyone else had seen the problem.

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Hey Folks,
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You have a Mid 2010 15-inch MacBook Pro, which supports 8 GB of memory. Your MacBook Pro requires 1066 MHz DDR3 RAM. You can have a look at all the memory specs in this site > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1270?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US#link2
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