Problems seeing wireless networks

Hello, I am having some problems getting my room mates power book onto wireless networks. I created a wirelss network with my linksys router then when i look for the network under the airport signal icon i see no networks so I select to join "other" network and type in linksys (the ssid) and boom, i connect to the network . When I take the computer somewhere that I know there is an open wireless network it sees nothing, If I get the ssid of the network form another computer I can enter it in and the computer will connect to the network but it will never "see" any wireless networks???
any ideas how to fix this
-Jayson

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