1453:4026 — 26-183 Serial Cable
Radio Shack
- Vendor ID
- 1453
- Product ID
- 4026
- Combined
- 1453:4026
- Decimal
- 5203:16422
What is this device?
This is the USB identifier for a 26-183 Serial Cable manufactured by Radio Shack. The vendor ID 1453 is registered to Radio Shack with the USB Implementers Forum, and 4026 is the product ID that Radio Shack assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 1453:4026 Radio Shack 26-183 Serial Cable.
How to identify it on your system
Linux
$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1453:4026 Radio Shack 26-183 Serial Cable
You can filter directly with lsusb -d 1453:4026, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 1453:4026. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=1453, idProduct=4026.
Windows
In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:
USB\VID_1453&PID_4026 USB\VID_1453&PID_4026&REV_0100
From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_1453&PID_4026"
macOS
$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
26-183 Serial Cable:
Product ID: 0x4026
Vendor ID: 0x1453 (Radio Shack)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:
1453 Radio Shack 4026 26-183 Serial Cable