0846:5f00 — WPN111 802.11g Wireless Adapter [Atheros AR5523] (NetGear, Inc.)

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a WPN111 802.11g Wireless Adapter [Atheros AR5523] manufactured by NetGear, Inc.. The vendor ID 0846 is registered to NetGear, Inc. with the USB Implementers Forum, and 5f00 is the product ID that NetGear, Inc. assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 0846:5f00 NetGear, Inc. WPN111 802.11g Wireless Adapter [Atheros AR5523].

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0846:5f00 NetGear, Inc. WPN111 802.11g Wireless Adapter [Atheros AR5523]

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 0846:5f00, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 0846:5f00. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=0846, idProduct=5f00.

Windows

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

USB\VID_0846&PID_5F00
USB\VID_0846&PID_5F00&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_0846&PID_5F00"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    WPN111 802.11g Wireless Adapter [Atheros AR5523]:
      Product ID: 0x5f00
      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.
	5f00  WPN111 802.11g Wireless Adapter [Atheros AR5523]

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