My MacBook Airport card has never appeared.

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?
Jonks.

If System Profiler is not showing the Card I fear it may have been jarred lose or just not connected during assembly. It's not like earlier ibooks etc. where you can get to it easily either. Sorry - I think you may have to bring it in.
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