Has been answered before in this thread :
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ora-os-860457/
You may be out of luck on an oldish RHEL 5, should be OK on EL 6.3.
The example says Fedora : RHEL 6 is Fedora 12 based. RHEL 5 : The old Fedora 6.
You may have a chance with RHEL5, latest kernel ..
Update the kernel : # yum install kernel
And a very good Ubuntu example, MTS ..
http://www.tuxtrix.com/2011/08/how-t...data-card.html
( Not much difference on any Gnome version, any OS.)
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