0411:017f — Sony UWA-BR100 802.11abgn Wireless Adapter [Atheros AR7010+AR9280]

BUFFALO INC. (formerly MelCo., Inc.)

Vendor ID: 0411
Product ID: 017f
Combined: 0411:017f
Decimal: 1041:383

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a Sony UWA-BR100 802.11abgn Wireless Adapter [Atheros AR7010+AR9280] manufactured by BUFFALO INC. (formerly MelCo., Inc.). The vendor ID 0411 is registered to BUFFALO INC. (formerly MelCo., Inc.) with the USB Implementers Forum, and 017f is the product ID that BUFFALO INC. (formerly MelCo., Inc.) assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 0411:017f BUFFALO INC. (formerly MelCo., Inc.) Sony UWA-BR100 802.11abgn Wireless Adapter [Atheros AR7010+AR9280].

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0411:017f BUFFALO INC. (formerly MelCo., Inc.) Sony UWA-BR100 802.11abgn Wireless Adapter [Atheros AR7010+AR9280]

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 0411:017f, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 0411:017f. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=0411, idProduct=017f.

Windows

In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:

USB\VID_0411&PID_017F
USB\VID_0411&PID_017F&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_0411&PID_017F"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    Sony UWA-BR100 802.11abgn Wireless Adapter [Atheros AR7010+AR9280]:
      Product ID: 0x017f
      Vendor ID: 0x0411  (BUFFALO INC. (formerly MelCo., Inc.))

Driver help

Having driver issues with this device? Most USB devices are handled by a generic class driver; if yours shows up as an unknown device, confirm the ID above first, then check the manufacturer's downloads page.

Raw usb.ids entry

The exact lines this page is generated from, in the upstream source file:

0411  BUFFALO INC. (formerly MelCo., Inc.)
	017f  Sony UWA-BR100 802.11abgn Wireless Adapter [Atheros AR7010+AR9280]

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