Now before you recommend compact Wireless I have to point out that I had wlan0 working perfectly AND for some reason It has all gone Pete Tong?!
The other day I was playing around with MITM attacks and was enabling wlan0mon to look for signals.
When I finished this I could see that the card was in wlan0mon and was having issues restarting the card back to wlan0
cant remember what exactly I ran but it was something along the lines of the following.
sudo airmon-ng
sudo airmon-ng check (to see what services to kill)
sudo airmon-ng check kill
sudo airmon-ng start wlan0
sudo airmon-ng stop wlan0mon
sudo systemctl start NetworkManager
Now this is 110% something I have done wrong for this to happen and I acknowledge this. BUt its very VERY frustrating.
I now have no wireless interface and when I type in lwconfig I get the following:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
and when I try to connect the USB wireless card manually via VMbox I am met with the following:
Failed to attached the USB device to the virtual machine kali. USB device is busy with a previous request please try again later.
I have just asked my system to sudo apt update && upgrade to see if this helps the issue and it is in the process of doing this.
Result Code: NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG (0x80070057)
PLEASE HELP!! Any advice on the matter would be appreciated as I have no idea what to do next.
Thank you for taking the time to read this.