290c:4b4d — Mercury iPod Dock
R. Hamilton & Co. Ltd.
- Vendor ID
- 290c
- Product ID
- 4b4d
- Combined
- 290c:4b4d
- Decimal
- 10508:19277
What is this device?
This is the USB identifier for a Mercury iPod Dock manufactured by R. Hamilton & Co. Ltd.. The vendor ID 290c is registered to R. Hamilton & Co. Ltd. with the USB Implementers Forum, and 4b4d is the product ID that R. Hamilton & Co. Ltd. assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 290c:4b4d R. Hamilton & Co. Ltd. Mercury iPod Dock.
How to identify it on your system
Linux
$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 290c:4b4d R. Hamilton & Co. Ltd. Mercury iPod Dock
You can filter directly with lsusb -d 290c:4b4d, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 290c:4b4d. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=290c, idProduct=4b4d.
Windows
In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:
USB\VID_290C&PID_4B4D USB\VID_290C&PID_4B4D&REV_0100
From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_290C&PID_4B4D"
macOS
$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
Mercury iPod Dock:
Product ID: 0x4b4d
Vendor ID: 0x290c (R. Hamilton & Co. Ltd.)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:
290c R. Hamilton & Co. Ltd. 4b4d Mercury iPod Dock