It would be nice to know the chipset of your wireless card.

Does the --bssid <AP's MAC address> option in airodump-ng command, narrows the results to the specified AP?

I just processed all your valuable information and came up with this answer:
As stated at BackTrack Wiki,

"To tell for sure if your card is supported, use the command 'lspci -n| grep 14e4'.
If...

That's correct. I confirm that I tried to change the Mini PCI Express WiFi card of a HP COMPAQ PRESARIO and halted at boot with a message of incompatible hardware.
You can modify the bios if you...