WiFi card will appear to work for a moment before breaking entirely

(EDIT: I have since found a work-around for this, I just switched from Linux Mint to Bookworm Puppy Linux and that fixed the issue. The problem still happens on Mint though.) I'm fixing up an old hand-me-down PC. For a while the WiFi worked just fine, then one day it stopped and has been doing the same thing since: when I boot up the PC it will see the available networks nearby and start to connect to my home WiFi, but after 10 or so seconds it will say it couldn't connect, and checking the settings all the WiFi networks disappeared. This has been happening for a while and I've tried to figure

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