diff --git a/openwrt/package/wpa_supplicant/Config.in b/openwrt/package/wpa_supplicant/Config.in
index 00a756b4c..bac4e46a0 100644
--- a/openwrt/package/wpa_supplicant/Config.in
+++ b/openwrt/package/wpa_supplicant/Config.in
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_WPA_SUPPLICANT
 	prompt "wpa_supplicant.................... WPA Supplicant with support for WPA and WPA2"
 	tristate
 	default m if CONFIG_DEVEL
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_KMOD_MADWIFI
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBOPENSSL
 	help
 	  WPA Supplicant with support for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i / RSN).
diff --git a/openwrt/package/wpa_supplicant/Makefile b/openwrt/package/wpa_supplicant/Makefile
index b1a9bd1b3..442769693 100644
--- a/openwrt/package/wpa_supplicant/Makefile
+++ b/openwrt/package/wpa_supplicant/Makefile
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@
 include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=wpa_supplicant
-PKG_VERSION:=0.4.7
+PKG_VERSION:=0.4.9
 PKG_RELEASE:=1
-PKG_MD5SUM:=1345730f15d5f93f2f083096ddc903eb
+PKG_MD5SUM:=98498c152cbfc388c306fd9bbf7d57d4
 
 PKG_SOURCE_URL:=http://hostap.epitest.fi/releases/
 PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.gz