diff --git a/contrib/fedora/REQUIRED_PACKAGES b/contrib/fedora/REQUIRED_PACKAGES
index 2da5b5be55..925cc2d618 100755
--- a/contrib/fedora/REQUIRED_PACKAGES
+++ b/contrib/fedora/REQUIRED_PACKAGES
@@ -84,7 +84,6 @@ install \
     vala-devel \
     vala-tools \
     valgrind \
-    wireless-tools-devel \
     "${EXTRA_PACKAGES[@]}"
 
 # some packages don't exist in certain distributions. Install them one-by-one, and ignore errors.
diff --git a/contrib/fedora/rpm/NetworkManager.spec b/contrib/fedora/rpm/NetworkManager.spec
index 0f170287f6..e69edec99a 100644
--- a/contrib/fedora/rpm/NetworkManager.spec
+++ b/contrib/fedora/rpm/NetworkManager.spec
@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@
 
 %global dbus_glib_version 0.100
 
-%global wireless_tools_version 1:28-0pre9
-
 %global wpa_supplicant_version 1:1.1
 
 %global ppp_version %(sed -n 's/^#define\\s*VERSION\\s*"\\([^\\s]*\\)"$/\\1/p' %{_includedir}/pppd/patchlevel.h 2>/dev/null | grep . || echo bad)
@@ -191,9 +189,6 @@ BuildRequires: gettext-devel
 
 BuildRequires: dbus-devel >= %{dbus_version}
 BuildRequires: dbus-glib-devel >= %{dbus_glib_version}
-%if 0%{?fedora}
-BuildRequires: wireless-tools-devel >= %{wireless_tools_version}
-%endif
 BuildRequires: glib2-devel >= 2.40.0
 BuildRequires: gobject-introspection-devel >= 0.10.3
 %if %{with ppp}