AmneziaWG Interface Initialization Failure

When attempting to bring up an AmneziaWG interface using the 'awg-quick' tool, the system reports 'Error: Unknown device type'. This error indicates that the 'iproute2' utility cannot recognize 'amneziawg' as a valid network device. Users can verify this state by observing the terminal output during interface startup, which confirms that the system is unable to attach the required kernel module and is defaulting to a significantly slower userspace implementation.

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