05a3:8388 Marvell 88W8388 802.11a/b/g WLAN

ARC International

Vendor ID
05a3
Product ID
8388
Combined
05a3:8388
Decimal
1443:33672

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a Marvell 88W8388 802.11a/b/g WLAN manufactured by ARC International. The vendor ID 05a3 is registered to ARC International with the USB Implementers Forum, and 8388 is the product ID that ARC International assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 05a3:8388 ARC International Marvell 88W8388 802.11a/b/g WLAN.

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 05a3:8388 ARC International Marvell 88W8388 802.11a/b/g WLAN

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 05a3:8388, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 05a3:8388. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=05a3, idProduct=8388.

Windows

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

USB\VID_05A3&PID_8388
USB\VID_05A3&PID_8388&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_05A3&PID_8388"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    Marvell 88W8388 802.11a/b/g WLAN:
      Product ID: 0x8388
      Vendor ID: 0x05a3  (ARC International)

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:

05a3  ARC International
	8388  Marvell 88W8388 802.11a/b/g WLAN

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