046a:00ab — MX 1.0 FL BL Keyboard

CHERRY

Vendor ID: 046a
Product ID: 00ab
Combined: 046a:00ab
Decimal: 1130:171

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a MX 1.0 FL BL Keyboard manufactured by CHERRY. The vendor ID 046a is registered to CHERRY with the USB Implementers Forum, and 00ab is the product ID that CHERRY assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 046a:00ab CHERRY MX 1.0 FL BL Keyboard.

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 046a:00ab CHERRY MX 1.0 FL BL Keyboard

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 046a:00ab, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 046a:00ab. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=046a, idProduct=00ab.

Windows

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

USB\VID_046A&PID_00AB
USB\VID_046A&PID_00AB&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_046A&PID_00AB"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    MX 1.0 FL BL Keyboard:
      Product ID: 0x00ab
      Vendor ID: 0x046a  (CHERRY)

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:

046a  CHERRY
	00ab  MX 1.0 FL BL Keyboard

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