OK definitely not getting anywhere with this (awus036ach) adapter. Plenty of posts all pretty much giving the same instructions to install. I can see the module in lsmod, and it’s linked to the right vendor/product USB codes, but the interface never shows up in ifconfig.
Tried vmware and parallels, 2019.4. Trying to get it working under 2018.3, but not much luck there. Though I suspect there are problems with the install building a 5.x driver instead of a 4.x one.
@sfx2000 do you know of an inexpensive wifi dongle that works out of the box with Kali. Will have to live with 2.4G, 802.11b/g/n only.