No airport card installed, No airport card installed

Hi, I have a strange problem. First while Skype my video did not work , so I updated . Along with that the security updates came up which I updated to 10.6.8.
After rebooting it showed a screen saying kernel panic . I force quit and opened it in safe mode . Now I can boot normally but it says NO AIRPORT CARD INSTALLED. Can some please one help be fix it? I have read a lot of this issue posted here but not sure how to approach this issue as to which files to delete.
Thanks in advance.

Sorry forgot to mention that
I am using MacBook pro 15 inch 2.8 ghz 4 gb ram 2009 October model.

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