Getting wireguard to work on the steam deck
December 27, 2022•154 words
I was able to get wireguard to work on the steamdeck without having to enable read access and install wg-tools by doing the following.
- I followed this youtube video except I installed ubuntu 22.04 vs 20.04
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkkyNA31KOA
- Be sure to run "sudo apt-get install x11-xserver-utils" after logging into the ubuntu box. This will let the xhost user allow the gui apps and shit to work.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkkyNA31KOA
- I then followed this guide
- https://steamdeck.community/threads/setting-up-wireguard-client-on-steam-deck.265/
- From here I was able to get my stuff to work
- https://steamdeck.community/threads/setting-up-wireguard-client-on-steam-deck.265/
Everything is connecting to pfsense on the backend to set up wireguard there, check out youtube.
I followed this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jQ5UE_7xds
After that I was able to connect back home and reach my local network. :D
Not sure if this is persistent yet, but time will tell after the other update. It should be tho since distrobox is located in the home directory and im using