can't connect to wireless internet after shutting down

[Husse]

Welcome to Mint
This is exactly the error my oldest daughter has in her old HP or Compaq and Win XP home
Which router/access point and which wifi
Run lspci -vvnn and post the section for wifi only (or lsusb if it is a USB thingy)

[rich_roast]

Apologies, I don't know what's causing the problem or how to solve it straightaway, but this:

Capabilities: <access denied>

Can't be right. Off the bat that sounds like a permissions issue, but on a rootless system I'm a bit lost as to what advice to give... just wanted to highlight that bit of your output for others to see.

[Husse]

@ rich_roast

Capabilities: <access denied>

That is perfectly OK and as it should be - to get rid of that you should use sudo lspci -vvnn but there is no need for that
(And yes it's a permissions problem)
However this is a 3945ABG with iwl3945 and I have had a bunch of problems with that lately
@ meladem
Can you try ndiiswrapper - Windows Wireless Drivers
After you have installed the driver do

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echo "blacklist iwl3945" | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

and reboot
If this does not work open /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf as root and remove or comment out that line + reboot as your wifi is working although not quite as it should

[Husse]

Good
I get a bit nervous when i see iwl3945