05fd:0253 — ProPad 8 Digital
InterAct, Inc.
- Vendor ID
- 05fd
- Product ID
- 0253
- Combined
- 05fd:0253
- Decimal
- 1533:595
What is this device?
This is the USB identifier for a ProPad 8 Digital manufactured by InterAct, Inc.. The vendor ID 05fd is registered to InterAct, Inc. with the USB Implementers Forum, and 0253 is the product ID that InterAct, Inc. assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 05fd:0253 InterAct, Inc. ProPad 8 Digital.
How to identify it on your system
Linux
$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 05fd:0253 InterAct, Inc. ProPad 8 Digital
You can filter directly with lsusb -d 05fd:0253, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 05fd:0253. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=05fd, idProduct=0253.
Windows
In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:
USB\VID_05FD&PID_0253 USB\VID_05FD&PID_0253&REV_0100
From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_05FD&PID_0253"
macOS
$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
ProPad 8 Digital:
Product ID: 0x0253
Vendor ID: 0x05fd (InterAct, 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.
Raw usb.ids entry
The exact lines this page is generated from, in the upstream source file:
05fd InterAct, Inc. 0253 ProPad 8 Digital