That might definately be possible, the PC is an old Dell optiplex gx270 which only has 1 pci slot, I did disable the com and lpt ports in order to be sure enough IRQs where available. My neighbour is running 9.04 with exactly the same car (same card/chipset/etc) and for him it worked out of the box with the 8180 driver, I didn't even get it to work using ndiswrapper (mp:64 resetting wlan0 or something very similar grinding the system down completely(Xorg+ttys) so I swapped out the card for a better one with the rt61 chipset, this one did work out of the box.
** Attachment added: "lspci output" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33682579/lspci.txt -- Realtek RTL-8185 based Wifi NIC causes system lockup https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/395403 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs