wlan0 stays down

whenever I try to connect to connect to wlan0 it says it is down but whenever I try to put it up by using the command ifconfig wlan0 up then I try ip addressbut it still doesn't come up 1: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: ens33: mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether 00:0c:29:f4:91:46 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff altname enp2s1 inet 192.168.217.138/24 brd 192.168.217.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute ens33 valid_lft 1754sec preferred_lft 1754sec inet6 fe80::3043:70ae:f66b:b70a/64 scope link noprefixroute valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 3: wlx00c0ca993e3b: mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN group default qlen 1000 link/ether 00:c0:ca:99:3e:3b brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff how do i fix this this is kali vm kali is the only Linux flavour that does this this is a alfa adaptor called Alfa Network AWUS036NHA – USB WIFI Adapter, 150 Mbps, 802.11b/g/n, RP-SMA, AR9271L Atheros Chipset