Zotac WiFi Drivers - No Linux Support

"Your lspci output shows only one Ethernet controller (the wired one, a MCP79 which should be supported by the forcedeth driver). Doing a web search, I found a curious piece of information in a review of your motherboard: ""The WiFi module [...] connects to the board via a USB header"". If that is true, the information you want will be found not in lspci, but in lsusb.

After finding the correct line in the lsusb output, you can do a search for the ID (which will be something like 1d6b:0002) to find other people discussing the same hardware (people usually post the USB ID in that format when asking for help).

It seems Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu 9.04, which uses a 2.6.28 kernel. You could try a more recent kernel (Ubuntu 9.10, which should be released late this month, uses 2.6.31) to see if there is a driver for your device.

EDIT: Now that you posted the lsusb output, I can see that 160a:3184 is your wireless card. A quick search shows it is a VIA wireless card, apparently called VT6656. It seems there is a driver from VIA for it, and it seems to have been added to the staging tree for cleanup and possible future inclusion in the Linux kernel. See also Ubuntu bug #162671."

"I'm not sure about the audio side of things, but I've used ndiswrapper to use Windows Wifi drivers within Linux at times.

If you don't have any luck finding slightly more native drivers that should hopefully be able to give you your wireless (though it can sometimes take a bit of work)."