Comment 5 for bug 139671

I have to close this, sorry. It's not a change suitable for stable releases, and for hardy, hal-device-manager will be gone and be replaced by gnome-device-manager. Please see

  http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2007-April/007926.html
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=447027