17ef:304b AX88179 Gigabit Ethernet [ThinkPad OneLink GigaLAN]

Lenovo

Vendor ID
17ef
Product ID
304b
Combined
17ef:304b
Decimal
6127:12363

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a AX88179 Gigabit Ethernet [ThinkPad OneLink GigaLAN] manufactured by Lenovo. The vendor ID 17ef is registered to Lenovo with the USB Implementers Forum, and 304b is the product ID that Lenovo assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 17ef:304b Lenovo AX88179 Gigabit Ethernet [ThinkPad OneLink GigaLAN].

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 17ef:304b Lenovo AX88179 Gigabit Ethernet [ThinkPad OneLink GigaLAN]

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 17ef:304b, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 17ef:304b. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=17ef, idProduct=304b.

Windows

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

USB\VID_17EF&PID_304B
USB\VID_17EF&PID_304B&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_17EF&PID_304B"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    AX88179 Gigabit Ethernet [ThinkPad OneLink GigaLAN]:
      Product ID: 0x304b
      Vendor ID: 0x17ef  (Lenovo)

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:

17ef  Lenovo
	304b  AX88179 Gigabit Ethernet [ThinkPad OneLink GigaLAN]

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