diff --git a/meta-google/recipes-phosphor/flash/gbmc-update.bb b/meta-google/recipes-phosphor/flash/gbmc-update.bb
index 2c0f510..c0a3f7a 100644
--- a/meta-google/recipes-phosphor/flash/gbmc-update.bb
+++ b/meta-google/recipes-phosphor/flash/gbmc-update.bb
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
 
 FILES:${PN} += "${datadir}/gbmc-br-dhcp"
 
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "curl"
+
 do_install() {
     install -d ${D}${datadir}/gbmc-br-dhcp
     install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/75-gbmc-upgrade.sh ${D}${datadir}/gbmc-br-dhcp/
diff --git a/meta-google/recipes-phosphor/flash/gbmc-update/75-gbmc-upgrade.sh b/meta-google/recipes-phosphor/flash/gbmc-update/75-gbmc-upgrade.sh
index 1ed4b9a..f002b22 100644
--- a/meta-google/recipes-phosphor/flash/gbmc-update/75-gbmc-upgrade.sh
+++ b/meta-google/recipes-phosphor/flash/gbmc-update/75-gbmc-upgrade.sh
@@ -46,10 +46,11 @@
   # Ensure some sane output file limit
   # Currently no BMC image is larger than 64M
   ulimit -H -f $((96 * 1024 * 1024)) || return
-  timeout=$((SECONDS + 120))
+  timeout=$((SECONDS + 300))
   while (( SECONDS < timeout )); do
     local st=(0)
-    wget -q -O - "$bootfile_url" | tar -xC "$tmpdir" "firmware-gbmc/$machine" || st=("${PIPESTATUS[@]}")
+    curl -LSsk --max-time $((timeout - SECONDS)) "$bootfile_url" |
+      tar -xC "$tmpdir" "firmware-gbmc/$machine" || st=("${PIPESTATUS[@]}")
     (( st[0] != 0 )) || break
     (shopt -s nullglob dotglob; rm -rf -- "${tmpdir:?}"/*)
     sleep 5
diff --git a/meta-google/recipes-support/curl/curl_%.bbappend b/meta-google/recipes-support/curl/curl_%.bbappend
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9037946
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-google/recipes-support/curl/curl_%.bbappend
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+PACKAGECONFIG:remove = "libidn"