diff --git a/mission-center.be0 b/mission-center.be0
index 69e4de0af..342d1effd 100755
--- a/mission-center.be0
+++ b/mission-center.be0
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env beesh
 
-# BEE_VERSION mission-center-1.2.0-0
+# BEE_VERSION mission-center-1.2.0-1
 
 # Mission Center, a GTK4/libadwaita system monitor for GNOME
 # (https://missioncenter.io/, https://gitlab.com/mission-center-devs/mission-center)
@@ -57,6 +57,21 @@
 #   mirrors that exact tarball; mee_build() pre-seeds it (patched, with the
 #   same patches build.rs would apply) at the cache path build.rs computes,
 #   so its "already there" check short-circuits before any network call.
+#
+# * magpie's own network monitoring (subprojects/magpie/platform-linux/src/
+#   network/) hard-depends on org.freedesktop.NetworkManager over D-Bus for
+#   everything except raw byte counters: if NetworkManager isn't installed
+#   or isn't running (true of this repository -- there is no
+#   NetworkManager.be0), NetworkCache::new() gives up and the Network page
+#   shows nothing at all. PATCHURL[0] replaces every NM-only piece with its
+#   native-Linux equivalent instead: MAC/kind/state from sysfs
+#   (/sys/class/net/<if>/{address,type,wireless,operstate,...}), IPv4/IPv6
+#   addresses via getifaddrs(3), and SSID/frequency/bitrate/signal strength
+#   via nl80211 (generic netlink, the `neli-wifi` crate) -- the same
+#   mechanism `iw`/wpa_supplicant/NetworkManager itself use. This also drops
+#   the module's zbus/system-bus dependency entirely. SRCURL[6] is a second
+#   `cargo vendor` pass over magpie that additionally covers the new
+#   neli/neli-wifi dependency the patch adds to platform-linux/Cargo.toml.
 
 #SRCURL[0]="https://gitlab.com/mission-center-devs/mission-center/-/archive/v1.2.0/mission-center-v1.2.0.tar.gz"
 SRCURL[0]="https://beehive.molgen.mpg.de/4ed03428021bedec7aa69686fb021e46/mission-center-1.2.0.tar.gz"
@@ -73,14 +88,17 @@ SRCURL[3]="https://beehive.molgen.mpg.de/c51bb52eb3e5e24c1960adc3a276ca87/bluepr
 # private libadwaita, see ghostty.be0
 SRCURL[4]="https://beehive.molgen.mpg.de/7cabde6b8ca6a4865dde66b09b60240f/libadwaita-1.9.4.tar.xz"
 
-# `cargo vendor` output, see above
+# `cargo vendor` output, see above. magpie's includes neli/neli-wifi, added
+# by PATCHURL[0] below.
 SRCURL[5]="https://beehive.molgen.mpg.de/e846bf25e5585587a59fc945f479c4f1/mission-center-1.2.0-cargo-vendor.tar.xz"
-SRCURL[6]="https://beehive.molgen.mpg.de/590cfb1f5d2e4f7367be57ae2218f585/magpie-a5272b3c-cargo-vendor.tar.xz"
+SRCURL[6]="https://beehive.molgen.mpg.de/40c77fd051691eee6a99a0815d24967a/magpie-a5272b3c-cargo-vendor-no-networkmanager.tar.xz"
 
 #SRCURL[7]="https://github.com/Syllo/nvtop/archive/3d4a953da02bc18886734613bb9f60ff80669de7.tar.gz"
 SRCURL[7]="https://beehive.molgen.mpg.de/d4534c6a691048bb12425cb169efb651/nvtop-3d4a953da02bc18886734613bb9f60ff80669de7.tar.gz"
 
-# PATCHURL+=()
+# replaces magpie's NetworkManager-only network monitoring with native
+# sysfs/getifaddrs/nl80211 code, see the long comment up top
+PATCHURL+=("https://beehive.molgen.mpg.de/d2d395d2450c535746aadf89410555f2/network-no-networkmanager.patch")
 
 # build_in_sourcedir
 
@@ -116,9 +134,12 @@ mee_extract() {
     # consumed directly from there by mee_build(), see above.
 }
 
-#mee_patch() {
-#    bee_patch "${@}"
-#}
+mee_patch() {
+    # the patch targets the magpie subproject's own paths (platform-linux/...),
+    # not mission-center's own source root, so it can't go through the
+    # default bee_patch (which applies with cwd=${S})
+    (cd ${S}/subprojects/magpie && patch -p1 -i "${1}")
+}
 
 mee_configure() {
     p=/pkg/rustc-1.97.0-0/profile; [ -e $p ] && . $p