So I followed the directions verbatim on AUR pia page. I had it working for 2 days when I set my DNS to PIA DNS. Now all of a sudden when connecting to the VPN I can’t go to any sites… What could have possible happened after I restarted my laptop to cause this? I’m on a wireless connection that was going crazy when using wifi-menu and netctl so I stop/disabled/uninstalled netctl and just use the network manager that connects me to the internet just fine. No issues. As long as openvpn --auth-nocache --config filename.ovpn is not used. Why is this so difficult to figure out on Arch? Ubuntu has a script that just does the setup for you. Do I need to edit the script to make it work on Arch linux? Is there some guide besides the AUR page that talks about how to set this up? I’ve literally done
1.) Downloaded pia package and store in /etc/openvpn
2.) unzip package
3.) run openvpn --auth-nocache --config filename.ovpn
7 times…
I always connect but no internet access.
It may not be an issue on your end, but rather that the region you selected was slow/unresponsive at the time. This happened to me recently when using PIA with OpenVPN. Further, I had better results when running systemctl start openvpn@<region> for whatever reason.
Trying this with a wired connection seems to just not work. Using the same methods above the connection just hangs. Even using the direction in the two links posted don’t work. Trying systemctl start openvpn@US_East.service (I renamed the file since I wasn’t sure if the space was affecting it) and it won’t work either. Trying to use Network manager just gives an error saying User Canceled the secrets request.
– Edit –
… For anyone having the same issues. Just go to AUR (en) - private-internet-access-vpn download the package and install the AUR. From there copy the openvpn.zip file to /etc/openvpn and unzip it there. Now you can run any flavor or openvpn and get things working.
If you’re using networkmanager, just use networkmanager-openvpn…
I use connman and connman-vpn.
I’ve found the AUR package to not work as of right now. I installed NetworkManager-openvpn and imported the profiles from PIA’s zip file manually. Not sure this is the perfect solution, but it worked pretty well for me. I detailed what I did to get AES-128 encrpytion here: Talk:Private Internet Access/AUR - ArchWiki (look for the post from Bolwerk; you won’t have to look hard as it’s the only one right now). It worked almost out of the box by adding that ca.crt file and using my username/password with the default settings. AES-128-CBC encryption required changing the port.
Guess I’d just as soon not use AUR packages anyway, so depending on feedback I get about this I think this works for me.
You’ve gotta be kidding me… So now everything works after rebooting the system and running the command again after redownloading the package…
I definitely wanted to spend those 3 hours doing something else!
I’m thinking so too. US East wasn’t working. Just for laughs I made it connect to a different one. That’s when it started working.
something must be wrong with your config. also on arch and was using us east yesterday.
EDIT: i see you got it working, but for future reference…
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/forum/discussion/18003/openvpn-step-by-step-setups-for-various-debian-based-linux-oss-with-videos-ubuntu-mint-debian
With those to links i got everything working
Much obliged for the links, I’ll save these for the future just in case.