FAQ and quickstart

lennart lennart at hamburg.freifunk.net
Mon Jan 16 14:23:48 CET 2017


Solved it! (Thanks Jason)
"linux-headers" was not installed.
"pacman -S linux headers" did the trick.

Thanks all!

On 01/16/2017 02:13 PM, Jörg Thalheim wrote:
> The kernel module is most likely not loaded.
> 
> Make sure the following command returns something.
> 
> $ lsmod | grep wireguard
> wireguard             126976  0
> ip6_udp_tunnel         16384  1 wireguard
> udp_tunnel             16384  1 wireguard
> x_tables               28672  12 xt_hashlimit,xt_LOG,ipt_REJECT,ip_tables,iptable_filter,xt_tcpudp,xt_limit,ip6t_REJECT,ip6table_filter,wireguard,xt_conntrack,ip6_tables
> ipv6                  389120  151 nf_conntrack_ipv6,nf_reject_ipv6,nf_defrag_ipv6,wireguard,nf_nat_ipv6
> 
> Since you are on archlinux, did you reboot after kernel upgrade?
> 
> 
> On 2017-01-16 12:31, lennart wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to wireguard via the quickstart [0].
>> But I get this error:
>> $ sudo ip link add dev wg0 type wireguard
>> RTNETLINK answers: Operation not supported
>>
>> I know it has something to do with kernel configurations, but that would
>> be a whole new topic to me.
>> What do I need to do? Isn't this a good question for a FAQ?
>>
>> I'm on a archlinux:
>> $ uname -r
>> 4.8.13-1-ARCH
>>
>> Second:
>> How can a search the hole list archive? I'm just used to an interface to
>> do that.
>>
>> [0] https://www.wireguard.io/quickstart/
>>
>> Thanks a lot!
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