sysctl enabled but HAL non-existant

[Desmond Chapman]

The media shows up in konqueror as a normal user but I cannot mount it. there is no reference to hal with an apropos search except for ath_hal. 
What am I doing wrong? What else do I add to make the cd easily mountable?
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