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goosestepping

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Registered: 2019-09-25

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[SOLVED] Trying to connect wireguard on my linux-lts kernel and th ...

Hi, I am trying to connect wireguard on my linux-lts kernel and I am getting this error.

RTNETLINK answers: Operation not supported
Unable to access interface: Protocol not supported

I have installed wireguard-lts also.

Last edited by goosestepping (2019-09-28 16:17:52)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Trying to connect wireguard on my linux-lts kernel and th ...

There's no context so one could at best guess what's wrong here but I'd guess that's still on the wifi chip that caused all the other trouble?
Please don't take this out of context. You've a history struggling w/ that wifi.

Are you still using NM?

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goosestepping

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Re: [SOLVED] Trying to connect wireguard on my linux-lts kernel and th ...

I've never had an issue with this NIC until a recent kernel update which is why it is now working again with the older drivers from the linux-lts kernel. I had wireguard setup previously without issue but then i began getting this error which I posted above and so i uninstalled wireguard-arch and installed wireguard-lts...

Thanks for your help btw, and yes I am still using NM but now everything else is working fine.

Last edited by goosestepping (2019-09-28 14:53:22)

goosestepping

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Re: [SOLVED] Trying to connect wireguard on my linux-lts kernel and th ...

I have narrowed it down...

lsmod | grep wireguard

brings back nothing, what should I load?

wireguard or wireguard-lts?

it would be 'sudo modprobe wireguard-lts', right?

Thanks.

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Trying to connect wireguard on my linux-lts kernel and th ...

it would be 'sudo modprobe wireguard-lts', right?

Wrong.

pacman -Ql wireguard-lts

Or see https://www.archlinux.org/packages/comm … lts/files/

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goosestepping

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Re: [SOLVED] Trying to connect wireguard on my linux-lts kernel and th ...

I solved it by using the DKMS variant and then it worked.