diff --git a/recipes-connectivity/networkmanager/networkmanager/0001-don-t-try-to-run-sbin-dhclient-to-get-the-version-nu.patch b/recipes-connectivity/networkmanager/networkmanager/0001-don-t-try-to-run-sbin-dhclient-to-get-the-version-nu.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5c9ed92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-connectivity/networkmanager/networkmanager/0001-don-t-try-to-run-sbin-dhclient-to-get-the-version-nu.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+From 7dd40db6606c3b3559365a03944cb99aee5ceabc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Andreas=20M=C3=BCller?= <schnitzeltony@googlemail.com>
+Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 12:57:58 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] don't try to run /sbin/dhclient to get the version number,
+ this break cross-compiling
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [build system specific]
+
+Signed-off-by: Andreas Müller <schnitzeltony@googlemail.com>
+---
+ configure.ac |    6 ------
+ 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
+index cc66e9b..7163287 100644
+--- a/configure.ac
++++ b/configure.ac
+@@ -488,12 +488,6 @@ AS_IF([test -z "$with_dhcpcd"], with_dhcpcd=yes)
+ # Search and check the executables
+ if test "$with_dhclient" = "yes"; then
+ 	AC_PATH_PROGS(with_dhclient, dhclient, no, /sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin)
+-	if test "$with_dhclient" != "no"; then
+-		if ! $with_dhclient --version 2>&1 | grep -q "^isc-dhclient-4\."; then
+-			AC_MSG_WARN([Cannot use dhclient, version 4.x is required])
+-			with_dhclient=no
+-		fi
+-	fi
+ fi
+ if test "$with_dhcpcd" = "yes"; then
+ 	AC_PATH_PROGS(with_dhcpcd, dhcpcd, no, /sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin)
+-- 
+1.7.6.5
+
diff --git a/recipes-connectivity/networkmanager/networkmanager_%.bbappend b/recipes-connectivity/networkmanager/networkmanager_%.bbappend
deleted file mode 100644
index c10fd94..0000000
--- a/recipes-connectivity/networkmanager/networkmanager_%.bbappend
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-PACKAGECONFIG_append = " modemmanager bluez5"
diff --git a/recipes-connectivity/networkmanager/networkmanager_1.4.0.bb b/recipes-connectivity/networkmanager/networkmanager_1.4.0.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7cdb886
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-connectivity/networkmanager/networkmanager_1.4.0.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+SUMMARY = "NetworkManager"
+SECTION = "net/misc"
+
+LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=cbbffd568227ada506640fe950a4823b"
+
+DEPENDS = "libnl dbus dbus-glib libgudev wireless-tools nss util-linux libndp"
+
+inherit gnome gettext systemd
+
+SRC_URI = " \
+    ${GNOME_MIRROR}/NetworkManager/${@gnome_verdir("${PV}")}/NetworkManager-${PV}.tar.xz \
+    file://0001-don-t-try-to-run-sbin-dhclient-to-get-the-version-nu.patch \
+"
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "337e676261ca94af08f8e9b6f9b09a5b"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "c4d5e075998a291074501602a5068a7e54d9e0f2658aba079d58145d65be531d"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/NetworkManager-${PV}"
+
+EXTRA_OECONF = " \
+    --enable-ifupdown \
+    --disable-ifcfg-rh \
+    --disable-ifnet \
+    --disable-ifcfg-suse \
+    --with-netconfig \
+    --with-crypto=nss \
+    --disable-more-warnings \
+    --with-dhclient=${base_sbindir}/dhclient \
+    --with-iptables=${sbindir}/iptables \
+    --with-tests \
+    --with-dnsmasq=${bindir}/dnsmasq \
+"
+
+PACKAGECONFIG ??= "${@base_contains('DISTRO_FEATURES','systemd','systemd','consolekit',d)} modemmanager bluez5"
+PACKAGECONFIG[systemd] = " \
+    --with-systemdsystemunitdir=${systemd_unitdir}/system --with-session-tracking=systemd --enable-polkit, \
+    --without-systemdsystemunitdir, \
+    polkit \
+"
+# consolekit is not picked by shlibs, so add it to RDEPENDS too
+PACKAGECONFIG[bluez5] = "--enable-bluez5-dun,--disable-bluez5-dun,bluez5"
+PACKAGECONFIG[consolekit] = "--with-session-tracking=consolekit,,consolekit,consolekit"
+PACKAGECONFIG[concheck] = "--with-libsoup=yes,--with-libsoup=no,libsoup-2.4"
+PACKAGECONFIG[modemmanager] = "--with-modem-manager-1=yes,--with-modem-manager-1=no,modemmanager"
+PACKAGECONFIG[ppp] = "--enable-ppp,--disable-ppp,ppp"
+
+PACKAGES =+ "libnmutil libnmglib libnmglib-vpn ${PN}-tests ${PN}-bash-completion"
+
+FILES_libnmutil += "${libdir}/libnm-util.so.*"
+FILES_libnmglib += "${libdir}/libnm-glib.so.*"
+FILES_libnmglib-vpn += "${libdir}/libnm-glib-vpn.so.*"
+
+FILES_${PN} += " \
+    ${libexecdir} \
+    ${libdir}/pppd/*/nm-pppd-plugin.so \
+    ${libdir}/NetworkManager/*.so \
+    ${datadir}/polkit-1 \
+    ${datadir}/dbus-1 \
+    ${base_libdir}/udev/* \
+    ${systemd_unitdir}/system \
+"
+
+RRECOMMENDS_${PN} += "iptables dnsmasq"
+RCONFLICTS_${PN} = "connman"
+RDEPENDS_${PN} = " \
+    wpa-supplicant \
+    dhcp-client \
+"
+
+FILES_${PN}-dbg += " \
+    ${libdir}/NetworkManager/.debug/ \
+    ${libdir}/pppd/*/.debug/ \
+"
+
+FILES_${PN}-dev += " \
+    ${libdir}/pppd/*/*.la \
+    ${libdir}/NetworkManager/*.la \
+"
+
+FILES_${PN}-tests = " \
+    ${bindir}/nm-online \
+"
+
+FILES_${PN}-bash-completion = "${datadir}/bash-completion"
+
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "NetworkManager.service"
+
+do_install_append() {
+    rm -rf ${D}/run ${D}${localstatedir}/run
+}