0b95:1780 AX88178

ASIX Electronics Corp.

Vendor ID
0b95
Product ID
1780
Combined
0b95:1780
Decimal
2965:6016

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a AX88178 manufactured by ASIX Electronics Corp.. The vendor ID 0b95 is registered to ASIX Electronics Corp. with the USB Implementers Forum, and 1780 is the product ID that ASIX Electronics Corp. assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 0b95:1780 ASIX Electronics Corp. AX88178.

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0b95:1780 ASIX Electronics Corp. AX88178

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 0b95:1780, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 0b95:1780. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=0b95, idProduct=1780.

Windows

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

USB\VID_0B95&PID_1780
USB\VID_0B95&PID_1780&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_0B95&PID_1780"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    AX88178:
      Product ID: 0x1780
      Vendor ID: 0x0b95  (ASIX 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:

0b95  ASIX Electronics Corp.
	1780  AX88178

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