diff --git a/frontend/ui/networkmgr.lua b/frontend/ui/networkmgr.lua
index 81f4d578e..ea879bc2d 100644
--- a/frontend/ui/networkmgr.lua
+++ b/frontend/ui/networkmgr.lua
@@ -26,11 +26,11 @@ local function koboEnableWifi(toggle)
         os.execute("sleep 2")
         os.execute("ifconfig eth0 up")
         os.execute("wlarm_le -i eth0 up")
-        os.execute("pidof wpa_supplicant >/dev/null || wpa_supplicant -s -i eth0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -C /var/run/wpa_supplicant -B")
+        os.execute("pidof wpa_supplicant >/dev/null || cd / && env -u LD_LIBRARY_PATH wpa_supplicant -s -i eth0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -C /var/run/wpa_supplicant -B")
         os.execute("sleep 1")
-        os.execute("/sbin/udhcpc -S -i eth0 -s /etc/udhcpc.d/default.script -t15 -T10 -A3 -b -q >/dev/null 2>&1 &")
+        os.execute("cd / && env -u LD_LIBRARY_PATH /sbin/udhcpc -S -i eth0 -s /etc/udhcpc.d/default.script -t15 -T10 -A3 -b -q >/dev/null 2>&1 &")
     else
-        os.execute("killall udhcpc wpa_supplicant 2>/dev/null")
+        os.execute("killall udhcpc default.script wpa_supplicant 2>/dev/null")
         os.execute("wlarm_le -i eth0 down")
         os.execute("ifconfig eth0 down")
         os.execute("rmmod -r dhd")
diff --git a/platform/kobo/nickel.sh b/platform/kobo/nickel.sh
index 6096c220f..ca1c9d01b 100644
--- a/platform/kobo/nickel.sh
+++ b/platform/kobo/nickel.sh
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
 # Make sure we kill the WiFi first, because nickel apparently doesn't like it if it's up... (cf. #1520)
 # NOTE: That check is possibly wrong on PLATFORM == freescale (because I don't know if the sdio_wifi_pwr module exists there), but we don't terribly care about that.
 if lsmod | grep -q sdio_wifi_pwr ; then
+	killall udhcpc default.script wpa_supplicant 2>/dev/null
 	wlarm_le -i ${INTERFACE} down
 	ifconfig ${INTERFACE} down
 	# NOTE: Kobo's busybox build is weird. rmmod appears to be modprobe in disguise, defaulting to the -r flag. If re-specifying -r starts to fail one day, switch to rmmod without args, or modprobe -r.