My airport won't turn on

I've had my Macbook Pro for 2 years and it has worked fine. I used it last night, on the internet with no problems and this morning I can't get my airport to turn on. I click "Turn Airport On" and nothing happens. I t

Hello there,
There are a couple of troubleshooting steps you may want try. First take a look at reseting your SMC
Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
And then reset your PRAM
OS X Mountain Lion: Reset your computer’s PRAM
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11243
If you continue to experienc issues, then you may need to contact Apple Support using http://www.apple.com/support/contact/
Hope that helps,
Griff W.

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my macbook pro airport won't turn on! What would be the problem?
I've tried to turn the airport on and it says my airport card is not installed...
it has always worked till today... bot from now on nothing seem to help the airport work...
Please help me!
Thanks

You could try deleting the airpot from the sidebar of system preferences/network. To do this,
1) export the preferences for your airport to your desktop by pressing the gear next to the plus and minus sign above the lock.
2) Delete your airport from the sidebar using the minus sign while the airport is selected.
3) After deleting the airport, apply the changes and then press the plus sign to create a new airport.
4) Then import the preferences back in and apply the changes again.
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Good Luck.

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I'm hoping you guys can help me with this so I don't have to take my Macbook into the store for service.
I have a SR Macbook with the 2.2g processor, almost a year old.
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I noticed that for a week or so, just few days prior to upgrade to Snow Leopard my (fully updated) MacBook Pro's wireless turns off for no apparent reason. When that happenes I cannot turn it on unless I restart the computer. I tried several solutions, from checking whether this is just an incompatibility issue with one of the applications I have, and non of the ones proved to cause the problem. I erased airport preferences, reset the PRAM, took the battery out and work on direct supply, but no change in behavior.
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Tue Oct 20 23:29:24 <configd[14]> bsd_80211_eventcallback: LINK_QUALITY (en1)
Tue Oct 20 23:29:29 <configd[14]> bsd_80211_eventcallback: LINK_QUALITY (en1)
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Tue Oct 20 23:30:49 <configd[14]> bsd_80211_eventcallback: LINK_QUALITY (en1)
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Wed Oct 21 00:13:50 <airportd[980]> processdlilevent: Interface transitioning from down to up. Applying power pref (on).
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10/21/09 12:00:00 AM Alarm Clock[838] Updating menu items at day change
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10/21/09 12:13:33 AM kernel hibernate image path: /var/vm/sleepimage
10/21/09 12:13:33 AM kernel sizeof(IOHibernateImageHeader) == 512
10/21/09 12:13:33 AM kernel Opened file /var/vm/sleepimage, size 4294967296, partition base 0xc805000, maxio 400000
10/21/09 12:13:33 AM kernel hibernate image major 14, minor 2, blocksize 512, pollers 5
10/21/09 12:13:33 AM kernel hibernateallocpages flags 00000000, gobbling 0 pages
10/21/09 12:13:35 AM kernel NVEthernet::setLinkStatus - Valid but not Active
10/21/09 12:13:35 AM kernel vmmon: powerStateDidChange flags=0x4 (state 2)
10/21/09 12:13:35 AM kernel System SafeSleep
10/21/09 12:13:50 AM kernel hibernatepage_listsetall start
10/21/09 12:13:50 AM kernel hibernatepage_listsetall time: 169 ms
10/21/09 12:13:50 AM kernel pages 401556, wire 83533, act 64662, inact 732, spec 65, zf 80, throt 0, could discard act 38740 inact 62254 purgeable 3092 spec 148398
10/21/09 12:13:50 AM kernel hibernatepage_listsetall found pageCount 149072
10/21/09 12:13:50 AM kernel IOHibernatePollerOpen, mlget_interruptsenabled 0
10/21/09 12:13:50 AM kernel IOHibernatePollerOpen(0)
10/21/09 12:13:50 AM kernel writing 147884 pages
10/21/09 12:13:50 AM kernel image1Size 110966272
10/21/09 12:13:50 AM kernel PMStats: Hibernate write took 5517 ms
10/21/09 12:13:50 AM kernel all time: 5517 ms, comp time: 832 ms, deco time: 0 ms,
10/21/09 12:13:50 AM kernel image 221455872, uncompressed 606031872 (147957), compressed 220188000 (36%), sum1 abeec56f, sum2 473ad370
10/21/09 12:13:50 AM kernel hibernatewriteimage done(0)
10/21/09 12:13:50 AM kernel sleep
10/21/09 12:13:50 AM kernel Wake reason = EC LID0
10/21/09 12:13:50 AM kernel System Wake
10/21/09 12:13:50 AM kernel vmmon: powerStateDidChange flags=0x82 (state 4)
10/21/09 12:13:50 AM kernel Previous Sleep Cause: 5
10/21/09 12:13:50 AM kernel AirPort: Link Down on en1. Reason 4 (Disassociated due to inactivity).
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Also the last message of 00:13:35 says "System SafeSleep" so the OS is obviously sleeping
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I wonder what 5 means?
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