2478:2008 U209-000-R Serial Port

Tripp-Lite

Vendor ID
2478
Product ID
2008
Combined
2478:2008
Decimal
9336:8200

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a U209-000-R Serial Port manufactured by Tripp-Lite. The vendor ID 2478 is registered to Tripp-Lite with the USB Implementers Forum, and 2008 is the product ID that Tripp-Lite assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 2478:2008 Tripp-Lite U209-000-R Serial Port.

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 2478:2008 Tripp-Lite U209-000-R Serial Port

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 2478:2008, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 2478:2008. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=2478, idProduct=2008.

Windows

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

USB\VID_2478&PID_2008
USB\VID_2478&PID_2008&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_2478&PID_2008"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    U209-000-R Serial Port:
      Product ID: 0x2008
      Vendor ID: 0x2478  (Tripp-Lite)

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:

2478  Tripp-Lite
	2008  U209-000-R Serial Port

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