diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/ndiswrapper/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/ndiswrapper/default.nix
index 34c77bc3e6a7..92da7f6fb828 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/ndiswrapper/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/ndiswrapper/default.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, kernel, perl, kmod, libelf }:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, kernel, perl, kmod, libelf }:
 let
-  version = "1.62-pre";
+  version = "1.63";
 in
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   name = "ndiswrapper-${version}-${kernel.version}";
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   kernel = kernel.dev;
 
   buildPhase = "
-    cd ndiswrapper
     echo make KBUILD=$(echo \$kernel/lib/modules/*/build);
     echo -n $kernel/lib/modules/*/build > kbuild_path
     export PATH=${kmod}/sbin:$PATH
@@ -30,12 +29,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     patchShebangs $out/sbin
   '';
 
-  # should we use unstable?
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "pgiri";
-    repo = "ndiswrapper";
-    rev = "5e29f6a9d41df949b435066c173e3b1947f179d3";
-    sha256 = "0sprrmxxkf170bmh1nz9xw00gs89dddr84djlf666bn5bhy6jffi";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/ndiswrapper/files/stable/ndiswrapper-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1v6b66jhisl110jfl00hm43lmnrav32vs39d85gcbxrjqnmcx08g";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [ perl libelf ];
@@ -45,5 +41,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     homepage = "https://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper";
     license = "GPL";
     platforms = [ "i686-linux" "x86_64-linux" ];
+    broken = stdenv.lib.versionAtLeast kernel.version "5.8";
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/ndiswrapper/no-sbin.patch b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/ndiswrapper/no-sbin.patch
index 34965540d248..373965fb0853 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/ndiswrapper/no-sbin.patch
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/ndiswrapper/no-sbin.patch
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
-diff --git a/ndiswrapper/driver/Makefile b/ndiswrapper/driver/Makefile
-index bf42f7bc..ad23aa2d 100644
---- a/ndiswrapper/driver/Makefile
-+++ b/ndiswrapper/driver/Makefile
+--- a/driver/Makefile
++++ b/driver/Makefile
 @@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ clean:
  	rm -rf .tmp_versions