diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_2.9.bb b/meta/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_2.9.bb
index cddcfb6811..16c5918522 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_2.9.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_2.9.bb
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=279b4f5abb9c153c285221855ddb78cc \
 DEPENDS = "dbus libnl"
 RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = "wpa-supplicant-passphrase wpa-supplicant-cli"
 
-PACKAGECONFIG ??= "gnutls"
+PACKAGECONFIG ??= "openssl"
 PACKAGECONFIG[gnutls] = ",,gnutls libgcrypt"
 PACKAGECONFIG[openssl] = ",,openssl"