Access Connections 4.52 on A20m with Buffalo Wireless g card

I have an A20m on which I use a Buffalo Wireless 'g' PC card, and have updated to AC 4.52.  AC does not see any wireless networks - text 'greyed-out' in menu.
Is it at all possible to use AC with this config, or do I have to forget AC if I need to use a PC card which doesn't have a specific Lenovo driver?
Thanks in advance for any assistance!

Seems AC isn't communicating very well with some (probably) changed dll's that SP3 replaced. SP3 is known to break a lot of programs, drivers (combination of both). In some cases, there's not much to do but either
a- stop using the program until an update is available from the source (Lenovo)
b- revert back to SP2 to regain functionality.

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