diff --git a/buildrootconfig b/buildrootconfig
index 04c87ee..1f3b552 100644
--- a/buildrootconfig
+++ b/buildrootconfig
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_CRAMFS=y
 BR2_LINUX_KERNEL=y
 BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_TARBALL=y
 BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_TARBALL_LOCATION="http://n900.quitesimple.org/rescueOS/sourcecode/kernel_source.tar.gz"
+BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_PATCH="../N900_RescueOS/kernel-patches/0001-net-wireless-wl1251-update-firmware-path.patch"
 BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_USE_CUSTOM_CONFIG=y
 BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_CONFIG_FILE="../N900_RescueOS/kernel_config"
 BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_ZIMAGE=y
diff --git a/fs-overlay/rescueOS/setup-wpa-wifi.sh b/fs-overlay/rescueOS/setup-wpa-wifi.sh
index 2661cb2..74c6116 100755
--- a/fs-overlay/rescueOS/setup-wpa-wifi.sh
+++ b/fs-overlay/rescueOS/setup-wpa-wifi.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ ermsg()
 echo $1
 exit
 }
-ls /lib/firmware/ | grep wl1251 > /dev/null || ermsg "Firmware not found. Copy  wl1251-fw.bin, wl1251-nvs.bin from maemo.".
 [ -e /run/wlan.conf ] ||  ermsg "Yeah, please run wpa_passphrase [essid] [password ] > /run/wlan.conf first."
 modprobe wl1251_spi
 #Works for my router, probably for yours too, if not, then not :-)
diff --git a/kernel-patches/0001-net-wireless-wl1251-update-firmware-path.patch b/kernel-patches/0001-net-wireless-wl1251-update-firmware-path.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..69b51db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kernel-patches/0001-net-wireless-wl1251-update-firmware-path.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+From 4dc2cc73fa172892f817440877565018aa2f07c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
+Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 08:00:48 -0500
+Subject: [PATCH] net: wireless: wl1251: update firmware path
+
+Backported from 9f55c6201354183345fa06c6986668d159b6507f
+
+TI firmwares are located under ti-connectivity
+directory. Update path to make sure driver can
+find and load firmware blob.
+
+Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
+Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
+Backported-by: Daniel Gnoutcheff <daniel@gnoutcheff.name>
+---
+ drivers/net/wireless/wl1251/wl1251.h | 4 ++--
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/wl1251/wl1251.h b/drivers/net/wireless/wl1251/wl1251.h
+index a7f98a7..f705b5d 100644
+--- a/drivers/net/wireless/wl1251/wl1251.h
++++ b/drivers/net/wireless/wl1251/wl1251.h
+@@ -425,8 +425,8 @@ void wl1251_disable_interrupts(struct wl1251 *wl);
+ #define CHIP_ID_1271_PG10	           (0x4030101)
+ #define CHIP_ID_1271_PG20	           (0x4030111)
+ 
+-#define WL1251_FW_NAME "wl1251-fw.bin"
+-#define WL1251_NVS_NAME "wl1251-nvs.bin"
++#define WL1251_FW_NAME "ti-connectivity/wl1251-fw.bin"
++#define WL1251_NVS_NAME "ti-connectivity/wl1251-nvs.bin"
+ 
+ #define WL1251_POWER_ON_SLEEP 10 /* in miliseconds */
+ 
+-- 
+1.9.1
+