diff --git a/package/daq/Config.in b/package/daq/Config.in
index 1d24c6d11a..ad294abd60 100644
--- a/package/daq/Config.in
+++ b/package/daq/Config.in
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 config BR2_PACKAGE_DAQ
 	bool "daq"
 	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS # dlfcn.h
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBDNET
 	help
 	  DAQ is a Data Acquisition library for packet I/O from the
 	  Snort project.
diff --git a/package/daq/daq.mk b/package/daq/daq.mk
index 4499fb4b68..33c8a1f662 100644
--- a/package/daq/daq.mk
+++ b/package/daq/daq.mk
@@ -10,12 +10,21 @@ DAQ_SOURCE = daq-$(DAQ_VERSION).tar.gz
 DAQ_LICENSE = GPL-2.0
 DAQ_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
 DAQ_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
-DAQ_DEPENDENCIES = libdnet
 
 # package does not build in parallel due to improper make rules
 # related to the generation of the tokdefs.h header file
 DAQ_MAKE = $(MAKE1)
 
+# disable ipq module as libipq is deprecated
+DAQ_CONF_OPTS += --disable-ipq-module
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBDNET)$(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBNETFILTER_QUEUE),yy)
+DAQ_DEPENDENCIES += libdnet libnetfilter_queue
+DAQ_CONF_OPTS += --enable-nfq-module
+else
+DAQ_CONF_OPTS += --disable-nfq-module
+endif
+
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBPCAP),y)
 DAQ_DEPENDENCIES += libpcap
 # assume these flags are available to prevent configure from running