Okay, so i followed kcdtv's post to get the version 5 branch drivers installed. When I run airmon-ng it shows ??????? as my driver now. did i miss something? I'm getting the impression that something didn't install properly. the adapter has also been acting finicky. It wont turn back on if unplugged and plugged back in, and it no longercomes up with ANY Access Points in airodump-ng.
I hope somebody can help.
Update::
Flashing my system with kali image and installing drivers worked!
I had to do an os update to get headers to install.