US purchased Macbook in Europe not connecting to my wifi

i have a brand new macbook purchased in the usa. i live in switzerland. wireless worked fine in the states. it does not read that my wifi network exists. it sees two external wifi networks (secured) that i do not have access to.
i also have a mac mini which reads my network fine. it was purchased here.
i have read a few posts about wifi card problems between countries with this model.

hi michael,
thanks much. it works now.
the base was set to automatic (channel 13).
i rebooted the airport express base station. i had done that before. however this time i also unplugged my wireless landlandline phone base station. that seems to have done the job.
i think channel 13 is one of those european channels not available on a n. american wireless card.
works fine now. thanks for your help.
john

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