04a5:0002 — API Ergo K/B
Acer Peripherals Inc. (now BenQ Corp.)
- Vendor ID
- 04a5
- Product ID
- 0002
- Combined
- 04a5:0002
- Decimal
- 1189:2
What is this device?
This is the USB identifier for a API Ergo K/B manufactured by Acer Peripherals Inc. (now BenQ Corp.). The vendor ID 04a5 is registered to Acer Peripherals Inc. (now BenQ Corp.) with the USB Implementers Forum, and 0002 is the product ID that Acer Peripherals Inc. (now BenQ Corp.) assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 04a5:0002 Acer Peripherals Inc. (now BenQ Corp.) API Ergo K/B.
How to identify it on your system
Linux
$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04a5:0002 Acer Peripherals Inc. (now BenQ Corp.) API Ergo K/B
You can filter directly with lsusb -d 04a5:0002, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 04a5:0002. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=04a5, idProduct=0002.
Windows
In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:
USB\VID_04A5&PID_0002 USB\VID_04A5&PID_0002&REV_0100
From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_04A5&PID_0002"
macOS
$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
API Ergo K/B:
Product ID: 0x0002
Vendor ID: 0x04a5 (Acer Peripherals Inc. (now BenQ 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.
Raw usb.ids entry
The exact lines this page is generated from, in the upstream source file:
04a5 Acer Peripherals Inc. (now BenQ Corp.) 0002 API Ergo K/B