diff --git a/srcpkgs/wpa_supplicant/files/config b/srcpkgs/wpa_supplicant/files/config
index e4a7a964c43..44d4748282c 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/wpa_supplicant/files/config
+++ b/srcpkgs/wpa_supplicant/files/config
@@ -402,3 +402,5 @@ CONFIG_DELAYED_MIC_ERROR_REPORT=y
 #LIBS += -lbfd -liberty -lz
 #LIBS_p += -lbfd -liberty -lz
 #LIBS_c += -lbfd -liberty -lz
+#
+CONFIG_LIBNL32=yes
diff --git a/srcpkgs/wpa_supplicant/patches/hostap_allow-linking-with-libnl-3.2.patch b/srcpkgs/wpa_supplicant/patches/hostap_allow-linking-with-libnl-3.2.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1debd563852
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/wpa_supplicant/patches/hostap_allow-linking-with-libnl-3.2.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+Subject: [RFC] hostap: Allow linking with libnl-3.
+Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:30:04 -0000
+From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
+
+I needed this patch to compile against the latest
+libnl code.  I added this to my config file:
+
+CONFIG_LIBNL32=y
+
+Signed-hostap: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
+rediffed against 0.7.3 by Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.l-h@gmx.de>
+
+---
+:100644 100644 5caeec5... 0cc81f9... M  src/drivers/drivers.mak
+ src/drivers/drivers.mak |   21 ++++++++++++++-------
+ 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
+
+--- src/drivers/drivers.mak
++++ src/drivers/drivers.mak
+@@ -31,11 +31,18 @@ NEED_SME=y
+ NEED_AP_MLME=y
+ NEED_NETLINK=y
+ NEED_LINUX_IOCTL=y
+-DRV_LIBS += -lnl
++ifdef CONFIG_LIBNL32
++  DRV_LIBS += -lnl-3
++  DRV_LIBS += -lnl-genl-3
++  DRV_CFLAGS += -DCONFIG_LIBNL20
++  DRV_CFLAGS += -I/usr/include/libnl3/
++else
++  DRV_LIBS += -lnl
+
+-ifdef CONFIG_LIBNL20
+-DRV_LIBS += -lnl-genl
+-DRV_CFLAGS += -DCONFIG_LIBNL20
++  ifdef CONFIG_LIBNL20
++    DRV_LIBS += -lnl-genl
++    DRV_CFLAGS += -DCONFIG_LIBNL20
++  endif
+ endif
+ endif
diff --git a/srcpkgs/wpa_supplicant/template b/srcpkgs/wpa_supplicant/template
index 4e8257b1935..2ebce69fa5e 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/wpa_supplicant/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/wpa_supplicant/template
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 # Template file for 'wpa_supplicant'
 pkgname=wpa_supplicant
 version=0.7.3
-revision=7
+revision=8
 build_wrksrc=$pkgname
-distfiles="http://hostap.epitest.fi/releases/$pkgname-$version.tar.gz"
+homepage="http://hostap.epitest.fi"
+distfiles="$homepage/releases/$pkgname-$version.tar.gz"
 short_desc="WPA/WPA2/IEEE 802.1X Supplicant"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
+license="GPL-2"
 checksum=d0cd50caa85346ccc376dcda5ed3c258eef19a93b3cade39d25760118ad59443
 long_desc="
  $pkgname is a WPA Supplicant for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, and Windows with
@@ -23,7 +25,7 @@ long_desc="
 conf_files="/etc/${pkgname}.conf"
 systemd_services="${pkgname}.service on"
 
-Add_dependency build libnl-devel
+Add_dependency build libnl3-devel
 Add_dependency build openssl-devel
 Add_dependency build dbus-devel
 Add_dependency build readline-devel
diff --git a/srcpkgs/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.rshlibs b/srcpkgs/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.rshlibs
index 18b14a3c13e..949b8455148 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.rshlibs
+++ b/srcpkgs/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.rshlibs
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 libreadline.so.6
 libc.so.6
 libcrypto.so.1
-libnl.so.1
 libssl.so.1
 libdbus-1.so.3
 libpthread.so.0
+libnl-3.so.200
+libnl-genl-3.so.200