I apologise if this is basic troubleshooting. I bought a AWUS036NEH, which is recognised and properly apppearing in Device Manager in Windows 10.

I am using Debian 10x 64 bit, on Windows 10 via VMWare Workstation. I installed the Windows 10 driver for the ALFA device. My PC has an ethernet connection from a BT wifi disc.

I am using VmWare Workstation, Kali 2020 64 bit. When I go to VM, Removable Devices, I am given the choice to connect my ALFA device to Kali, but disconnecting it from the host. Unfortunately, doing so disconnects me from the internet on my PC.

Connecting the device to Kali (which disables my internet on PC)

root@kali:~# airmon-ng start wlan0

PHY Interface Driver Chipset

phy0 wlan0 rt2800usb Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2870/RT3070

(mac80211 monitor mode vif enabled for [phy0]wlan0 on [phy0]wlan0mon)

(mac80211 station mode vif disabled for [phy0]wlan0)

Can anyone shed any light on this?

I went to Device Manager, and right clicked on my 802.11n USB wireless card, have altered the Country region (2.4GHz); to see if that would help it would seem not....? using anything other than 0,1 or 5, (2,3,4,6,7), my internet cuts out. I am not sure how changing the channl of my wireless card would affect my internet, when it is a plug-in/USB device? I thought perhaps there was a conflict between for Kali, but I am totally basically lost.

Also, when I connect the USB wireless card to VMWare, then ran /usr/sbin/airmon-ng

I got:

phy3 wlan0 rt2800usb Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2870/RT3070


Then I ran

sudo airmon-ng start wlan0

which gave me:

PHY Interface Driver Chipset

phy3 wlan0 rt2800usb Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2870/RT3070

(mac80211 monitor mode vif enabled for [phy3]wlan0 on [phy3]wlan0mon)
(mac80211 station mode vif disabled for [phy3]wlan0)

I then ran

sudo airodump-ng wlan0mon, left it running it for 15 minutes...totally blank.

Interface wlan0mon:
ioctl(SIOCGIFINDEX) failed: No such device

Where am I going wrong? Why is my internet crashing on my PC? Can I have my internet, and use aircrack at the sametime?

Really sorry if I am asking something a stupid question, and for being verbose, just wanted to show that I have made some attempt to resolve the issue myself.