diff --git a/package/ethtool/ethtool.hash b/package/ethtool/ethtool.hash
index 8d2bf5842049..812e4dd8d112 100644
--- a/package/ethtool/ethtool.hash
+++ b/package/ethtool/ethtool.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-# From https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/sha256sums.asc
-sha256  814171ea4b8026b081c0741dbbf32e6968311483ecf64711232faec2ac70a14c  ethtool-6.5.tar.xz
 # Locally calculated
+sha256  b1f5fa66f71c3bab9daeacbd77e010b52c47df0a711b216847f78405f3299189  ethtool-6.5.tar.gz
 sha256  8177f97513213526df2cf6184d8ff986c675afb514d4e68a404010521b880643  COPYING
 sha256  5d632934396f90c82dfebe3c9512648bbb6333b406113d0cd331b0e0aa2d34a1  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/ethtool/ethtool.mk b/package/ethtool/ethtool.mk
index 94d14b123b02..ee710e0021dd 100644
--- a/package/ethtool/ethtool.mk
+++ b/package/ethtool/ethtool.mk
@@ -5,8 +5,11 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 ETHTOOL_VERSION = 6.5
-ETHTOOL_SOURCE = ethtool-$(ETHTOOL_VERSION).tar.xz
-ETHTOOL_SITE = $(BR2_KERNEL_MIRROR)/software/network/ethtool
+ETHTOOL_SITE = https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/ethtool/ethtool.git/snapshot
+# needed only for autoreconf
+ETHTOOL_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf
+# GIT version, shipped without configure
+ETHTOOL_AUTORECONF = YES
 ETHTOOL_LICENSE = GPL-2.0
 ETHTOOL_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE COPYING
 ETHTOOL_CPE_ID_VENDOR = kernel