0c9d:0170 — 3873 Manual Insert card reader
SemTek
- Vendor ID
- 0c9d
- Product ID
- 0170
- Combined
- 0c9d:0170
- Decimal
- 3229:368
What is this device?
This is the USB identifier for a 3873 Manual Insert card reader manufactured by SemTek. The vendor ID 0c9d is registered to SemTek with the USB Implementers Forum, and 0170 is the product ID that SemTek assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 0c9d:0170 SemTek 3873 Manual Insert card reader.
How to identify it on your system
Linux
$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0c9d:0170 SemTek 3873 Manual Insert card reader
You can filter directly with lsusb -d 0c9d:0170, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 0c9d:0170. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=0c9d, idProduct=0170.
Windows
In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:
USB\VID_0C9D&PID_0170 USB\VID_0C9D&PID_0170&REV_0100
From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_0C9D&PID_0170"
macOS
$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
3873 Manual Insert card reader:
Product ID: 0x0170
Vendor ID: 0x0c9d (SemTek)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:
0c9d SemTek 0170 3873 Manual Insert card reader