045e:008a — Wireless Optical Desktop Receiver 2.0A

Microsoft Corp.

Vendor ID: 045e
Product ID: 008a
Combined: 045e:008a
Decimal: 1118:138

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a Wireless Optical Desktop Receiver 2.0A manufactured by Microsoft Corp.. The vendor ID 045e is registered to Microsoft Corp. with the USB Implementers Forum, and 008a is the product ID that Microsoft Corp. assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 045e:008a Microsoft Corp. Wireless Optical Desktop Receiver 2.0A.

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 045e:008a Microsoft Corp. Wireless Optical Desktop Receiver 2.0A

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 045e:008a, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 045e:008a. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=045e, idProduct=008a.

Windows

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

USB\VID_045E&PID_008A
USB\VID_045E&PID_008A&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_045E&PID_008A"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    Wireless Optical Desktop Receiver 2.0A:
      Product ID: 0x008a
      Vendor ID: 0x045e  (Microsoft Corp.)

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. Microsoft Corp. official support →

Raw usb.ids entry

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

045e  Microsoft Corp.
	008a  Wireless Optical Desktop Receiver 2.0A

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