09aa:1000 — Prism GT 802.11b/g Adapter

Intersil Corp.

Vendor ID: 09aa
Product ID: 1000
Combined: 09aa:1000
Decimal: 2474:4096

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a Prism GT 802.11b/g Adapter manufactured by Intersil Corp.. The vendor ID 09aa is registered to Intersil Corp. with the USB Implementers Forum, and 1000 is the product ID that Intersil Corp. assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 09aa:1000 Intersil Corp. Prism GT 802.11b/g Adapter.

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 09aa:1000 Intersil Corp. Prism GT 802.11b/g Adapter

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 09aa:1000, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 09aa:1000. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=09aa, idProduct=1000.

Windows

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

USB\VID_09AA&PID_1000
USB\VID_09AA&PID_1000&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_09AA&PID_1000"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    Prism GT 802.11b/g Adapter:
      Product ID: 0x1000
      Vendor ID: 0x09aa  (Intersil Corp.)

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:

09aa  Intersil Corp.
	1000  Prism GT 802.11b/g Adapter