diff --git a/packages/devel/libpcap/package.mk b/packages/devel/libpcap/package.mk
index 0eeaa057c3..9ac2ff0158 100644
--- a/packages/devel/libpcap/package.mk
+++ b/packages/devel/libpcap/package.mk
@@ -17,13 +17,13 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 PKG_NAME="libpcap"
-PKG_VERSION="1.3.0"
+PKG_VERSION="1.6.2"
 PKG_REV="1"
 PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.tcpdump.org/"
 PKG_URL="http://www.tcpdump.org/release/libpcap-${PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz"
-PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain libusb"
+PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain libusb libnl"
 PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
 PKG_SECTION="devel"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="system interface for user-level packet capture"
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ pre_configure_target() {
 # When cross-compiling, configure can't set linux version
 # forcing it
   sed -i -e 's/ac_cv_linux_vers=unknown/ac_cv_linux_vers=2/' ../configure
+
+  export CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I$SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/include/libnl3"
 }
 
 post_makeinstall_target() {
diff --git a/packages/devel/libpcap/patches/libpcap-crosscompiling.patch b/packages/devel/libpcap/patches/libpcap-crosscompiling.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3066ee28bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/devel/libpcap/patches/libpcap-crosscompiling.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+diff -Naur libpcap-1.6.2/configure.in libpcap-1.6.2.patch/configure.in
+--- libpcap-1.6.2/configure.in	2014-07-19 15:21:09.000000000 +0200
++++ libpcap-1.6.2.patch/configure.in	2014-09-06 05:58:33.918837813 +0200
+@@ -459,7 +459,6 @@
+ 			AC_DEFINE(HAVE_LIBNL_3_x,1,[if libnl exists and is version 3.x])
+ 			AC_DEFINE(HAVE_LIBNL_NLE,1,[libnl has NLE_FAILURE])
+ 			AC_DEFINE(HAVE_LIBNL_SOCKETS,1,[libnl has new-style socket api])
+-			V_INCLS="$V_INCLS -I/usr/include/libnl3"
+ 			have_any_nl="yes"
+ 		])
+