04a9:3173 — PowerShot SD890 IS DIGITAL ELPH / Digital IXUS 970 IS / IXY DIGITAL 820 IS
Canon, Inc.
- Vendor ID
- 04a9
- Product ID
- 3173
- Combined
- 04a9:3173
- Decimal
- 1193:12659
What is this device?
This is the USB identifier for a PowerShot SD890 IS DIGITAL ELPH / Digital IXUS 970 IS / IXY DIGITAL 820 IS manufactured by Canon, Inc.. The vendor ID 04a9 is registered to Canon, Inc. with the USB Implementers Forum, and 3173 is the product ID that Canon, Inc. assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 04a9:3173 Canon, Inc. PowerShot SD890 IS DIGITAL ELPH / Digital IXUS 970 IS / IXY DIGITAL 820 IS.
How to identify it on your system
Linux
$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04a9:3173 Canon, Inc. PowerShot SD890 IS DIGITAL ELPH / Digital IXUS 970 IS / IXY DIGITAL 820 IS
You can filter directly with lsusb -d 04a9:3173, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 04a9:3173. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=04a9, idProduct=3173.
Windows
In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:
USB\VID_04A9&PID_3173 USB\VID_04A9&PID_3173&REV_0100
From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_04A9&PID_3173"
macOS
$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
PowerShot SD890 IS DIGITAL ELPH / Digital IXUS 970 IS / IXY DIGITAL 820 IS:
Product ID: 0x3173
Vendor ID: 0x04a9 (Canon, 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. Canon, Inc. official support →
Raw usb.ids entry
The exact lines this page is generated from, in the upstream source file:
04a9 Canon, Inc. 3173 PowerShot SD890 IS DIGITAL ELPH / Digital IXUS 970 IS / IXY DIGITAL 820 IS