CentOS 5 making flash + wireless work

source : http://www.yqed.com/install-flash-player-10-centos-64-bits/

# yum install curl compat-libstdc++-33 glibc nspluginwrapper

# rpm -ivh /tmp/flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-release.i386.rpm
or install the plugin from adobe site.

type: about:plugins in firefox address bar

if things still dont work then locate libflashplayer.so file and then
cp libflashplayer.so $HOME/.mozilla/plugins


Wireless Installation

source : http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless

download iwl4965-firmware-228.57.2.23-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm from net (google it)

rpm -Uhv iwl4965-firmware-228.57.2.23-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm

modprobe -r iwlagn; modprobe iwlagn


Start the network manager
source : http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/NetworkManager

/sbin/chkconfig NetworkManager on


/sbin/service NetworkManager start


/sbin/chkconfig network off
/sbin/chkconfig wpa_supplicant off

On the up right corner you will now see a newtworking icon, right click on the icon and setup your wireless.