diff --git a/net-wireless/kismet/files/kismet-stdio.patch b/net-wireless/kismet/files/kismet-stdio.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5f1b52e73
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net-wireless/kismet/files/kismet-stdio.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+--- a/capture_linux_wifi/linux_wireless_control.c.orig	2023-07-20 22:02:04.000000000 +0800
++++ b/capture_linux_wifi/linux_wireless_control.c	2025-05-13 22:14:22.831343873 +0800
+@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
+ 
+ #include <sys/types.h>
+ #include <dirent.h>
++#include <stdio.h>
+ 
+ #ifdef HAVE_LINUX_WIRELESS
+ #include <asm/types.h>
diff --git a/net-wireless/kismet/kismet-2023.07.1-r3.ebuild b/net-wireless/kismet/kismet-2023.07.1-r3.ebuild
index 51aab7d4c..0c8c2ed8a 100644
--- a/net-wireless/kismet/kismet-2023.07.1-r3.ebuild
+++ b/net-wireless/kismet/kismet-2023.07.1-r3.ebuild
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ else
 		"${DISTDIR}/${P}-stdint-fix.patch"
 		# https://github.com/kismetwireless/kismet/pull/517
 		"${FILESDIR}"/0001-configure.ac-bashism-fix-critical-existence-failure-.patch
+		"${FILESDIR}"/kismet-stdio.patch
 	)
 
 	KEYWORDS="amd64 arm ~arm64 ~ppc x86"
@@ -40,7 +41,7 @@ HOMEPAGE="https://www.kismetwireless.net"
 
 LICENSE="GPL-2"
 SLOT="0/${PV}"
-IUSE="libusb lm-sensors networkmanager +pcre rtlsdr selinux +suid ubertooth udev"
+IUSE="libusb lm-sensors networkmanager +pcre rtlsdr selinux +suid ubertooth udev +wext"
 REQUIRED_USE="${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE}"
 
 # upstream said protobuf-26.1 breaks everything
@@ -134,6 +135,7 @@ src_configure() {
 		$(use_enable lm-sensors lmsensors) \
 		$(use_enable networkmanager libnm) \
 		$(use_enable ubertooth) \
+		$(use_enable wext linuxwext) \
 		--sysconfdir=/etc/kismet \
 		--disable-optimization
 }
diff --git a/net-wireless/kismet/metadata.xml b/net-wireless/kismet/metadata.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9c4f78353
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net-wireless/kismet/metadata.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>zerochaos@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Rick Farina</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<use>
+		<flag name="libusb">Support libusb based capture sources such as mousejack, cc2540(ble), and nrf51822(ble)</flag>
+		<flag name="mqtt">Enable MQTT support</flag>
+		<flag name="pcre">Build with pcre support</flag>
+		<flag name="protobuf">Support old protobuf message passing in case of remote capture sources which are not up to date.</flag>
+		<flag name="rtlsdr">Enable rtlsdr based kismet capture sources</flag>
+		<flag name="suid">
+			Install a setuid root helper binary with limited functionality;
+			this allows running kismet as a normal user, significantly
+			reducing security risks
+		</flag>
+		<flag name="ubertooth">Enable capture source for ubertooth to sniff bluetooth low energy</flag>
+		<flag name="wext">
+			Enable building kismet with support for the deprecated Linux Wireless Extensions.
+			This is required for some out of tree and staging drivers, and kismet has not
+			been well tested with it disabled, so it defaults to on.
+		</flag>
+	</use>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="github">kismetwireless/kismet</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>