It's that time of the year again to start filing taxes, and here in Belgium we are "blessed" to be able to use our Belgian eid to file those taxes electronically at our governments
Tax on Web site.
Linux support
Officialy, there are some drivers available for Redhat and Ubuntu 9.10. However, remembering last years debacle of trying to follow those instructions, I decided to not stumble into that tarpit and just did a bit of googling around. After pulling together some various bits and pieces, this is what I did to make it work:
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$ sudo apt-get install libacr38u libacr38ucontrol0 beid-tools pcscd libpcsclite-dev beidgui libbeid2 libbeidlibopensc2
- Reboot. Yes, I know this is Linux and I know it is 2010. The problem is the pcscd service won't start properly without a reboot. If you have a better clue then I do, you can probably fix this without a reboot, but there it is.
- Launch firefox and navigate to file:///usr/share/beid/beid-pkcs11-register.html Depending on your version of Firefox that may or may not properly install the pkcs11 module. For me it did not so I moved on to the next step.
- In firefox, navigate to Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Security Devices Click on Load and fill out file:///usr/lib/libbeidpkcs11.so.2 as the Module filename. Then click OK.
After these steps I was able to log in to the Tax on Web site. Hope this is helpful to somebody else out there.
