I've only recently managed to get one of these bad boys working under Linux (Ubuntu/Mythbuntu to be specific). After countless hours of trying to fiddle around with lircd config files to no avail I came across this site:
If you have one of these remotes, or one simlar you will be able to tell by having a quick look at the output from dmesg, there will be a line similar to this one:
input: TopSeed Tech Corp. USB IR Combo Device as /class/input/inputx
If you have one of these then I'd definitely recommend visiting the above site, a quick download, grab a couple of dependencies, and you're away.
This post may hopefully give this guy some exposure and hopefully increase the chances that future owners of one of these will be able to make full use of it.