12d1:15bb ME936 LTE/HSDPA+ 4G modem

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

Vendor ID
12d1
Product ID
15bb
Combined
12d1:15bb
Decimal
4817:5563

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a ME936 LTE/HSDPA+ 4G modem manufactured by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.. The vendor ID 12d1 is registered to Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. with the USB Implementers Forum, and 15bb is the product ID that Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 12d1:15bb Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. ME936 LTE/HSDPA+ 4G modem.

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 12d1:15bb Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. ME936 LTE/HSDPA+ 4G modem

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 12d1:15bb, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 12d1:15bb. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=12d1, idProduct=15bb.

Windows

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

USB\VID_12D1&PID_15BB
USB\VID_12D1&PID_15BB&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_12D1&PID_15BB"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    ME936 LTE/HSDPA+ 4G modem:
      Product ID: 0x15bb
      Vendor ID: 0x12d1  (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.)

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:

12d1  Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
	15bb  ME936 LTE/HSDPA+ 4G modem

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