Thanks for the reply!
I installed the drivers from the command above. I'm unaware of how to check to see if the drivers were installed correctly, or how to use those drivers to detect my adapter. I'm about to wipe my hard drive for the 50th time, re-image kali onto it and run the following commands. Am I on the right track?
Code:
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get install gparted (cfdisk doesn't work even though I'd prefer to resize my partition with a tool from within the kali repository)
gparted (resize my partition to install full version of kali)
apt-get install kali-linux-full
apt install firmware-atheros
Will I be able to plug my adapter in and it be detected after I follow these steps and reboot? Thanks for helping the noob!