Wifi icon in menu bar dimmed with and "x" over icon

Macbook Air 11-inch, mid 2013, OS X Yosemite, all software is up to date. My wifi icon appears as dimmed in the menu bar with an "x" over it. I have used network assisrant, diadnostics, fallowed all instructions properly as promted to do so. How do I enable wifi?

I bet you have a Samsung laser printer, don't you?
And if so, it looks like you were dumb enough to put in the included CD! Don't! Those CD's are for the Windows Users!
Look what happened! It now installed the SmartPannel that is very un-fun to remove. Lucky for you, I re-looked up for you how to do it....as when I first got my mac, I too was dumb enough to put in that disk and got frustrated when I couldn't make the icon go away.
so . . . in:
~library/printers/SmartPanel
there is a script called iLaunchSP....Trash it!
Reboot!
It will be gone!

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