diff --git a/package/alessandro/busybox/busybox.desc b/package/alessandro/busybox/busybox.desc
index 0ef4b7e93..7d3901a0d 100644
--- a/package/alessandro/busybox/busybox.desc
+++ b/package/alessandro/busybox/busybox.desc
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 
 [L] GPL
 [S] Stable
-[V] 1.00
+[V] 1.01
 [P] X -?---5---9 163.100
 
-[D] 605550868 busybox-1.00.tar.bz2 http://busybox.net/downloads/
+[D] 1248303990 busybox-1.01.tar.bz2 http://busybox.net/downloads/
diff --git a/package/alessandro/busybox/lxconfig.patch b/package/alessandro/busybox/lxconfig.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..71d3d67c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/alessandro/busybox/lxconfig.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+--- ./miscutils/time.c.orig	2005-11-04 13:26:21.000000000 +0100
++++ ./miscutils/time.c	2005-11-04 13:26:28.000000000 +0100
+@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
+    Heavily modified for busybox by Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
+    */
+ 
++#include "busybox.h"
+ #include <stdlib.h>
+ #include <stdio.h>
+ #include <signal.h>
+@@ -36,7 +37,6 @@
+ 
+ #define TV_MSEC tv_usec / 1000
+ #include <sys/resource.h>
+-#include "busybox.h"
+ 
+ /* Information on the resources used by a child process.  */
+ typedef struct
+--- ./shell/ash.c.orig	2005-11-04 13:27:12.000000000 +0100
++++ ./shell/ash.c	2005-11-04 13:27:21.000000000 +0100
+@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@
+ #define _GNU_SOURCE
+ #endif
+ 
++#include "busybox.h"
+ #include <sys/types.h>
+ #include <sys/cdefs.h>
+ #include <sys/ioctl.h>
+@@ -96,7 +97,6 @@
+ #include <fnmatch.h>
+ 
+ 
+-#include "busybox.h"
+ #include "pwd_.h"
+ 
+ #ifdef CONFIG_ASH_JOB_CONTROL
+--- ./sysklogd/syslogd.c.orig	2005-11-04 13:27:36.000000000 +0100
++++ ./sysklogd/syslogd.c	2005-11-04 13:27:43.000000000 +0100
+@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@
+  *
+  */
+ 
++#include "busybox.h"
++
+ #include <stdio.h>
+ #include <stdlib.h>
+ #include <ctype.h>
+@@ -45,8 +47,6 @@
+ #include <sys/un.h>
+ #include <sys/param.h>
+ 
+-#include "busybox.h"
+-
+ /* SYSLOG_NAMES defined to pull some extra junk from syslog.h */
+ #define SYSLOG_NAMES
+ #include <sys/syslog.h>
+--- ./networking/ping.c.orig	2005-11-04 13:26:37.000000000 +0100
++++ ./networking/ping.c	2005-11-04 13:26:45.000000000 +0100
+@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
+  * Original copyright notice is retained at the end of this file.
+  */
+ 
++#include "busybox.h"
+ #include <sys/param.h>
+ #include <sys/socket.h>
+ #include <sys/file.h>
+@@ -49,7 +50,6 @@
+ #include <unistd.h>
+ #include <string.h>
+ #include <stdlib.h>
+-#include "busybox.h"
+ 
+ 
+ static const int DEFDATALEN = 56;
+--- ./include/busybox.h.orig	2005-11-04 13:21:57.000000000 +0100
++++ ./include/busybox.h	2005-11-04 13:30:10.000000000 +0100
+@@ -24,6 +24,13 @@
+ #ifndef	_BB_INTERNAL_H_
+ #define	_BB_INTERNAL_H_    1
+ 
++// never include the linux kernel config setting. They use the same
++// namespace as the busybox config flags.  -- Clifford Wolf
++#ifdef _LINUX_CONFIG_H
++#  error Linux kernel config included before busybox.h
++#endif
++#define _LINUX_CONFIG_H
++
+ #include "config.h"
+ 
+ #include <stdio.h>