FAQ and quickstart

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

Hi Christian,

Should the wireguard Arch package depend on linux-headers? Or the dkms
package on linux-headers? Or is it just the Arch-way that dkms merely
prints a warning but doesn't actually have real package deps?

Jason

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 2:23 PM, lennart <lennart at hamburg.freifunk.net> wrote:
> 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!
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> WireGuard mailing list
>>> WireGuard at lists.zx2c4.com
>>> https://lists.zx2c4.com/mailman/listinfo/wireguard
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> WireGuard mailing list
>> WireGuard at lists.zx2c4.com
>> https://lists.zx2c4.com/mailman/listinfo/wireguard
>>
> _______________________________________________
> WireGuard mailing list
> WireGuard at lists.zx2c4.com
> https://lists.zx2c4.com/mailman/listinfo/wireguard



-- 
Jason A. Donenfeld
Deep Space Explorer
fr: +33 6 51 90 82 66
us: +1 513 476 1200
www.jasondonenfeld.com
www.zx2c4.com
zx2c4.com/keys/AB9942E6D4A4CFC3412620A749FC7012A5DE03AE.asc