3923:729e USB-6251 (OEM) data acquisition card

National Instruments Corp.

Vendor ID
3923
Product ID
729e
Combined
3923:729e
Decimal
14627:29342

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a USB-6251 (OEM) data acquisition card manufactured by National Instruments Corp.. The vendor ID 3923 is registered to National Instruments Corp. with the USB Implementers Forum, and 729e is the product ID that National Instruments Corp. assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 3923:729e National Instruments Corp. USB-6251 (OEM) data acquisition card.

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 3923:729e National Instruments Corp. USB-6251 (OEM) data acquisition card

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 3923:729e, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 3923:729e. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=3923, idProduct=729e.

Windows

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

USB\VID_3923&PID_729E
USB\VID_3923&PID_729E&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_3923&PID_729E"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    USB-6251 (OEM) data acquisition card:
      Product ID: 0x729e
      Vendor ID: 0x3923  (National Instruments Corp.)

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:

3923  National Instruments Corp.
	729e  USB-6251 (OEM) data acquisition card

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