What appears in the terminal when you run sudo modprobe ath9k_htc ?
Device Drivers → Network Device Support → Wireless LAN → Atheros/Qualcomm devices (CONFIG_WLAN_VENDOR_ATH=y) → Atheros HTC based wireless cards support (CONFIG_ATH9K_HTC=y) install atheros ar9271 driver kali linux
sudo airmon-ng check kill