0a5c:21e1 HP Portable SoftSailing

Broadcom Corp.

Vendor ID
0a5c
Product ID
21e1
Combined
0a5c:21e1
Decimal
2652:8673

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a HP Portable SoftSailing manufactured by Broadcom Corp.. The vendor ID 0a5c is registered to Broadcom Corp. with the USB Implementers Forum, and 21e1 is the product ID that Broadcom Corp. assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 0a5c:21e1 Broadcom Corp. HP Portable SoftSailing.

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0a5c:21e1 Broadcom Corp. HP Portable SoftSailing

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 0a5c:21e1, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 0a5c:21e1. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=0a5c, idProduct=21e1.

Windows

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

USB\VID_0A5C&PID_21E1
USB\VID_0A5C&PID_21E1&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_0A5C&PID_21E1"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    HP Portable SoftSailing:
      Product ID: 0x21e1
      Vendor ID: 0x0a5c  (Broadcom 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:

0a5c  Broadcom Corp.
	21e1  HP Portable SoftSailing

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