173a:2198 — Accu-Chek Mobile

Roche

Vendor ID: 173a
Product ID: 2198
Combined: 173a:2198
Decimal: 5946:8600

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a Accu-Chek Mobile manufactured by Roche. The vendor ID 173a is registered to Roche with the USB Implementers Forum, and 2198 is the product ID that Roche assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 173a:2198 Roche Accu-Chek Mobile.

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 173a:2198 Roche Accu-Chek Mobile

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 173a:2198, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 173a:2198. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=173a, idProduct=2198.

Windows

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

USB\VID_173A&PID_2198
USB\VID_173A&PID_2198&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_173A&PID_2198"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    Accu-Chek Mobile:
      Product ID: 0x2198
      Vendor ID: 0x173a  (Roche)

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:

173a  Roche
	2198  Accu-Chek Mobile