0846:4300 — WG111U Double 108 Mbps Wireless [Atheros AR5004X / AR5005UX] (NetGear, Inc.)

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a WG111U Double 108 Mbps Wireless [Atheros AR5004X / AR5005UX] manufactured by NetGear, Inc.. The vendor ID 0846 is registered to NetGear, Inc. with the USB Implementers Forum, and 4300 is the product ID that NetGear, Inc. assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 0846:4300 NetGear, Inc. WG111U Double 108 Mbps Wireless [Atheros AR5004X / AR5005UX].

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0846:4300 NetGear, Inc. WG111U Double 108 Mbps Wireless [Atheros AR5004X / AR5005UX]

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 0846:4300, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 0846:4300. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=0846, idProduct=4300.

Windows

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

USB\VID_0846&PID_4300
USB\VID_0846&PID_4300&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_0846&PID_4300"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    WG111U Double 108 Mbps Wireless [Atheros AR5004X / AR5005UX]:
      Product ID: 0x4300
      Vendor ID: 0x0846  (NetGear, 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:

0846  NetGear, Inc.
	4300  WG111U Double 108 Mbps Wireless [Atheros AR5004X / AR5005UX]

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