Comment 6 for bug 274936

I didn't get around to rebuilding the ubuntu sources yet, but upstream definitely works without hal, and fails with hal. Upstream does list hal support as experimental, so I guess they weren't lying!

Workarounds:
 * rebuild from source without hal
 * if you have bluetooth, you can do the hotsync over tcp over ppp over bluetooth, as documented on pilot-link.org, and tell gpilot to use "net:"