Wireguard Kernel Support
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Hello Devs,
Just curious if there is plans to add wireguard kernel support?
I see that when installing the wireguard app that it lists its not supported and that it would need to use userspace implementation.Interestingly, I have tried for hours to even get that working to which it just refuses to connect.
I have wireguard working just fine on all the other android and pi devices I have... this one just doesnt want to work -
Wireguard is supported by default in the Linux Kernel these days IIRC so maybe it will be added when the 20.04 LTS upgrade is released ??
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@nero355 with the upgrade to 20.04 there is no guarantee that the kernel will also be upgraded, especially not for the Halium based devices. What with the closed source hardware drivers and all...
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@arubislander
Also no backporting of the features into the older Kernel ?! -
@nero355 If the kernels are not likely to change, then back-porting features is not dependent on the move to 20.04, but on someone stepping up and actually doing (or digging in and learning to do) the work.
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@arubislander
Hmm... that's true... I totally forgot... my bad!
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If you checked my GitHub repo recently (or watched one of the last Q&As) I did precisely that: backporting Wireguard.
It's just that the app in the OpenStore is completely dysfunctional for anyone with a sudo password.
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@fredldotme Is there any straight forward way to use wireguard in UT now ? I've seen a tuto, but for openvpn. I have these .conf files that are waiting... whereas being in Australia, one of the five eyes, make me file the need for it more strongly than before.
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@fredldotme said in Wireguard Kernel Support:
If you checked my GitHub repo recently (or watched one of the last Q&As) I did precisely that: backporting Wireguard.
I don't spend a lot of time on either of those, sorry! :$
Do you have a direct link ?
It's just that the app in the OpenStore is completely dysfunctional for anyone with a sudo password.
Not sure if I understand what you mean there... ??
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@Fteacher @nero355 to keep it short: The device itself is now very much capable of using Wireguard, but the app in the Open Store only works if you have no PIN set.
I have started work on making it work on pretty much every other configuration because, IMO, having a password/PIN set should be the default. I just haven't been able to complete it with limited time available.
So sadly there is no "straight forward" way to do it right now, but if you're capable of making a Wireguard configurator yourself, then please go ahead as I would very much like to see this completed.
The kernel changes are listed here:
https://github.com/fredldotme/android_kernel_google_bonito/commit/e2adf79749e99a2ebf1f6867ef3bd51e45d52682
https://github.com/fredldotme/android_kernel_google_bonito/commit/6fcfbd867cf913d9e4d026e6beabb7ffe0655729 -
@fredldotme Yep, I've seen the Q&A about Wireguard, that's where I thought to myself, it should work it's just me being wrong about something obvious. When you say no PIN set, you mean, within our VPNs providers ? Right now I'm using Torguard (uses wireguard) and Protonvpn (other protocol) and I can't have any of these working because they both need a password (probably most vpn providers do)
I don't code and I'm infinitely grateful for those doing that job "for me" (and the whole community). So thanks fredldotme for the work already done. -
@fredldotme Love your work on the device. Its great. Wireguard support is possibly the only major thing that is preventing my daily use as it is critical for a lot of my self hosted life. From a security standpoint I will wait until the device is functional with the password working as if i for whatever reason lost it, with no password i could be up a creek without a paddle
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@fredldotme any update on the app compatibility with 3a XL?
I really would like wireguard support with a pin -
@joshndroid said in Wireguard Kernel Support:
I really would like wireguard support with a pin
How much would it be worth for you?
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