2001:3500 — Elitegroup Computer Systems WLAN card WL-162 (D-Link Corp.)

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a Elitegroup Computer Systems WLAN card WL-162 manufactured by D-Link Corp.. The vendor ID 2001 is registered to D-Link Corp. with the USB Implementers Forum, and 3500 is the product ID that D-Link Corp. assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 2001:3500 D-Link Corp. Elitegroup Computer Systems WLAN card WL-162.

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 2001:3500 D-Link Corp. Elitegroup Computer Systems WLAN card WL-162

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 2001:3500, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 2001:3500. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=2001, idProduct=3500.

Windows

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

USB\VID_2001&PID_3500
USB\VID_2001&PID_3500&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_2001&PID_3500"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    Elitegroup Computer Systems WLAN card WL-162:
      Product ID: 0x3500
      Vendor ID: 0x2001  (D-Link Corp.)

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:

2001  D-Link Corp.
	3500  Elitegroup Computer Systems WLAN card WL-162

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