21a4:ac27 SPORTS Active 2 Wireless Controller for PS3

Electronic Arts Inc.

Vendor ID
21a4
Product ID
ac27
Combined
21a4:ac27
Decimal
8612:44071

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a SPORTS Active 2 Wireless Controller for PS3 manufactured by Electronic Arts Inc.. The vendor ID 21a4 is registered to Electronic Arts Inc. with the USB Implementers Forum, and ac27 is the product ID that Electronic Arts Inc. assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 21a4:ac27 Electronic Arts Inc. SPORTS Active 2 Wireless Controller for PS3.

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 21a4:ac27 Electronic Arts Inc. SPORTS Active 2 Wireless Controller for PS3

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 21a4:ac27, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 21a4:ac27. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=21a4, idProduct=ac27.

Windows

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

USB\VID_21A4&PID_AC27
USB\VID_21A4&PID_AC27&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_21A4&PID_AC27"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    SPORTS Active 2 Wireless Controller for PS3:
      Product ID: 0xac27
      Vendor ID: 0x21a4  (Electronic Arts Inc.)

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:

21a4  Electronic Arts Inc.
	ac27  SPORTS Active 2 Wireless Controller for PS3

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