142a:0043 — medCompact
Thales E-Transactions
- Vendor ID
- 142a
- Product ID
- 0043
- Combined
- 142a:0043
- Decimal
- 5162:67
What is this device?
This is the USB identifier for a medCompact manufactured by Thales E-Transactions. The vendor ID 142a is registered to Thales E-Transactions with the USB Implementers Forum, and 0043 is the product ID that Thales E-Transactions assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 142a:0043 Thales E-Transactions medCompact.
How to identify it on your system
Linux
$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 142a:0043 Thales E-Transactions medCompact
You can filter directly with lsusb -d 142a:0043, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 142a:0043. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=142a, idProduct=0043.
Windows
In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:
USB\VID_142A&PID_0043 USB\VID_142A&PID_0043&REV_0100
From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_142A&PID_0043"
macOS
$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
medCompact:
Product ID: 0x0043
Vendor ID: 0x142a (Thales E-Transactions)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:
142a Thales E-Transactions 0043 medCompact