diff --git a/pkgs-ng/stdenv/nix/path.fix b/pkgs-ng/stdenv/nix/path.fix
index 883130dfc399..7a801856a7f6 100644
--- a/pkgs-ng/stdenv/nix/path.fix
+++ b/pkgs-ng/stdenv/nix/path.fix
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
   pkgs.gnutar
   pkgs.gzip
   pkgs.bzip2
+  pkgs.wget
   pkgs.binutils
   pkgs.gnumake
   pkgs.gcc
diff --git a/pkgs-ng/system/all-packages-generic.fix b/pkgs-ng/system/all-packages-generic.fix
index 85186e973254..57d416bf82e7 100644
--- a/pkgs-ng/system/all-packages-generic.fix
+++ b/pkgs-ng/system/all-packages-generic.fix
@@ -59,6 +59,11 @@
     stdenv = stdenv;
   };
 
+  wget = (import ../tools/networking/wget) {
+    fetchurl = fetchurl;
+    stdenv = stdenv;
+  };
+
 
   ### SHELLS
 
diff --git a/pkgs-ng/tools/networking/wget/builder.sh b/pkgs-ng/tools/networking/wget/builder.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..9523d7e9ca82
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs-ng/tools/networking/wget/builder.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#! /bin/sh
+
+. $stdenv/setup || exit 1
+
+tar xvfz $src || exit 1
+cd wget-* || exit 1
+./configure --prefix=$out || exit 1
+make || exit 1
+make install || exit 1
diff --git a/pkgs-ng/tools/networking/wget/default.fix b/pkgs-ng/tools/networking/wget/default.fix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..259f7dfa62d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs-ng/tools/networking/wget/default.fix
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl}: derivation {
+  name = "wget-1.9";
+  system = stdenv.system;
+  builder = ./builder.sh;
+  src = fetchurl {
+      url = ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/gnu/wget/wget-1.9.tar.gz;
+      md5 = "18ac093db70801b210152dd69b4ef08a";
+    };
+  stdenv = stdenv;
+}