No wireless card interface while plugging in USB wireless adapter

[xyq96999]

I have been use Kali Linux for a while, the problem shown in the title always bothers me. Here is the detail:
I am now running the latest version of Kali Linux in VMware workstation 11. The VMware Kali OS img was downloaded directly from its official website. After I boot up the OS and plug in the USB wireless network adapter which is TL-WN722N the card can be detected by lsusb.

root@kali:~# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0cf3:9271 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9271 802.11n
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0e0f:0002 VMware, Inc. Virtual USB Hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0e0f:0003 VMware, Inc. Virtual Mouse
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

However if I run ifconfig -a, there is no wireless interface for me.

root@kali:~# ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0c:29:15:d1:22  
          inet addr:192.168.88.128  Bcast:192.168.88.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe15:d122/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:149 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:48 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:24835 (24.2 KiB)  TX bytes:4410 (4.3 KiB)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:46 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:46 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:2700 (2.6 KiB)  TX bytes:2700 (2.6 KiB)

An interesting thing is that sometimes not very often, Kali linux provides me an interface and works perfect with me.

[SarelWillemse]

I have the same problem, and have found no success in making the adapter visble when running ifconfig or iwconfig.
I'm newly to linux and would like to learn as I go, firs time posting in forum aswell.
Can you please provide me with any help in fixing this problem.
I am running Kali linux as a guest os in Virtual Box from Windows7 as host OS.
Using TL-WN722N wireless usb adapter and the settings in Virtual box USB is set up correct, I suspect it has something to do with drivers.
Please notify me when you need more details and how to obtain