1a86:e008 HID-based serial adapter

QinHeng Electronics

Vendor ID
1a86
Product ID
e008
Combined
1a86:e008
Decimal
6790:57352

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a HID-based serial adapter manufactured by QinHeng Electronics. The vendor ID 1a86 is registered to QinHeng Electronics with the USB Implementers Forum, and e008 is the product ID that QinHeng Electronics assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 1a86:e008 QinHeng Electronics HID-based serial adapter.

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1a86:e008 QinHeng Electronics HID-based serial adapter

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 1a86:e008, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 1a86:e008. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=1a86, idProduct=e008.

Windows

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

USB\VID_1A86&PID_E008
USB\VID_1A86&PID_E008&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_1A86&PID_E008"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    HID-based serial adapter:
      Product ID: 0xe008
      Vendor ID: 0x1a86  (QinHeng Electronics)

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. QinHeng Electronics official support →

Raw usb.ids entry

The exact lines this page is generated from, in the upstream source file:

1a86  QinHeng Electronics
	e008  HID-based serial adapter

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