wlan0 Not found

[Cooldud3]

Hello, so I am new to Kali, and I went as far as purchasing a wireless adapter, and I got the device recognized in Kali, but it doesn't show up in iwconfig, and I have no idea what to do. I am on a gigabyte G5 KD laptop, and I am using a TP-Link external wireless adapter.

 

[Brickwizard]

If you have the necessary experience using Linux and are terminal competent, you should be able to find&fix this problem.
Did you bother to read the full Kali documentation before you installed it?
clue... check your USB settings in your VM

 

[KGIII]

Moved to the Kali sub-forum.

 

[osprey]

Hello, so I am new to Kali, and I went as far as purchasing a wireless adapter, and I got the device recognized in Kali, but it doesn't show up in iwconfig, and I have no idea what to do. I am on a gigabyte G5 KD laptop, and I am using a TP-Link external wireless adapter.

What does the following command output show:

lsusb

Hopefully it'll show some information about the driver, such as the following:

[tom@min ~]$ lsusb
<snip>
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 2357:0107 TP-Link TL-WN821N v5/v6 [RTL8192EU]
<snip>

which shows the chipset of this wifi dongle, for which the driver is 8192eu.
Then you can investigate whether the kernel has the driver compiled into itself or not, whether the correct firmware is installed, and whether or not you need to find a driver and install it from external sources.