28de:1142 — Wireless Steam Controller
Valve Software
- Vendor ID
- 28de
- Product ID
- 1142
- Combined
- 28de:1142
- Decimal
- 10462:4418
What is this device?
This is the USB identifier for a Wireless Steam Controller manufactured by Valve Software. The vendor ID 28de is registered to Valve Software with the USB Implementers Forum, and 1142 is the product ID that Valve Software assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 28de:1142 Valve Software Wireless Steam Controller.
How to identify it on your system
Linux
$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 28de:1142 Valve Software Wireless Steam Controller
You can filter directly with lsusb -d 28de:1142, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 28de:1142. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=28de, idProduct=1142.
Windows
In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:
USB\VID_28DE&PID_1142 USB\VID_28DE&PID_1142&REV_0100
From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_28DE&PID_1142"
macOS
$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
Wireless Steam Controller:
Product ID: 0x1142
Vendor ID: 0x28de (Valve Software)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:
28de Valve Software 1142 Wireless Steam Controller