diff --git a/package/kismet/kismet.mk b/package/kismet/kismet.mk
index 5445db0b1f..3a171af7b2 100644
--- a/package/kismet/kismet.mk
+++ b/package/kismet/kismet.mk
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ KISMET_DEPENDENCIES = \
 KISMET_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+
 KISMET_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
 KISMET_SELINUX_MODULES = kismet
+# Needed because tarball configure has not been rebuilt after
+# https://github.com/kismetwireless/kismet/commit/e70968bcbca86dd448d619c40cdeaae8b7dcee98
+KISMET_AUTORECONF = YES
 
 KISMET_CONF_OPTS = --disable-debuglibs