157e:3012 — TEW-604UB 802.11bg Wireless Adapter [Atheros AR5523] (TRENDnet)

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a TEW-604UB 802.11bg Wireless Adapter [Atheros AR5523] manufactured by TRENDnet. The vendor ID 157e is registered to TRENDnet with the USB Implementers Forum, and 3012 is the product ID that TRENDnet assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 157e:3012 TRENDnet TEW-604UB 802.11bg Wireless Adapter [Atheros AR5523].

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 157e:3012 TRENDnet TEW-604UB 802.11bg Wireless Adapter [Atheros AR5523]

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 157e:3012, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 157e:3012. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=157e, idProduct=3012.

Windows

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

USB\VID_157E&PID_3012
USB\VID_157E&PID_3012&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_157E&PID_3012"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    TEW-604UB 802.11bg Wireless Adapter [Atheros AR5523]:
      Product ID: 0x3012
      Vendor ID: 0x157e  (TRENDnet)

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:

157e  TRENDnet
	3012  TEW-604UB 802.11bg Wireless Adapter [Atheros AR5523]

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