Linux – Wifi adapter not working Kali linux

Lqueryvg is on the right track:

If Kali is running as a vmware guest, vmware should see your laptop wlan0 device, not Kali. Kali would see a virtual ethernet adapter (like the one you've shown). This would then be bridged/routed/NAT'ed through the vmware hypervisor possibly through to your wireless adapter and the outside word, depending on how you've set it up in vmware.

However, if you are using Kali, I'm guessing that you are going to want to put your wireless card into monitor mode to use things like airmon-ng, aircrack-ng, kismet, etc. I'm not sure if you can do this successfully through a virtual device.

I know that you can do this with a USB wireless dongle that you tell your hypervisor to "attach" directly to the VM (bypassing the host).

You could also just boot your system into a kali live cd. Then you should have no trouble seeing wlan0 :-) .

Buy powered usb hub + Y cable, run adapter through thst Usually problem is electricity with usb can't provide enough for adapter.