0a81:0205 PS/2 Keyboard+Mouse Adapter

Chesen Electronics Corp.

Vendor ID
0a81
Product ID
0205
Combined
0a81:0205
Decimal
2689:517

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a PS/2 Keyboard+Mouse Adapter manufactured by Chesen Electronics Corp.. The vendor ID 0a81 is registered to Chesen Electronics Corp. with the USB Implementers Forum, and 0205 is the product ID that Chesen Electronics Corp. assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 0a81:0205 Chesen Electronics Corp. PS/2 Keyboard+Mouse Adapter.

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0a81:0205 Chesen Electronics Corp. PS/2 Keyboard+Mouse Adapter

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 0a81:0205, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 0a81:0205. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=0a81, idProduct=0205.

Windows

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

USB\VID_0A81&PID_0205
USB\VID_0A81&PID_0205&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_0A81&PID_0205"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    PS/2 Keyboard+Mouse Adapter:
      Product ID: 0x0205
      Vendor ID: 0x0a81  (Chesen Electronics 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:

0a81  Chesen Electronics Corp.
	0205  PS/2 Keyboard+Mouse Adapter

More from Chesen Electronics Corp.