2019:ab2b — GW-USEco300 802.11bgn Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8192CU]

PLANEX

Vendor ID: 2019
Product ID: ab2b
Combined: 2019:ab2b
Decimal: 8217:43819

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a GW-USEco300 802.11bgn Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8192CU] manufactured by PLANEX. The vendor ID 2019 is registered to PLANEX with the USB Implementers Forum, and ab2b is the product ID that PLANEX assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 2019:ab2b PLANEX GW-USEco300 802.11bgn Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8192CU].

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 2019:ab2b PLANEX GW-USEco300 802.11bgn Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8192CU]

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 2019:ab2b, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 2019:ab2b. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=2019, idProduct=ab2b.

Windows

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

USB\VID_2019&PID_AB2B
USB\VID_2019&PID_AB2B&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_2019&PID_AB2B"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    GW-USEco300 802.11bgn Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8192CU]:
      Product ID: 0xab2b
      Vendor ID: 0x2019  (PLANEX)

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:

2019  PLANEX
	ab2b  GW-USEco300 802.11bgn Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8192CU]

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