5a57:5257 — Metronic 495257 wifi 802.11ng
Zinwell
- Vendor ID
- 5a57
- Product ID
- 5257
- Combined
- 5a57:5257
- Decimal
- 23127:21079
What is this device?
This is the USB identifier for a Metronic 495257 wifi 802.11ng manufactured by Zinwell. The vendor ID 5a57 is registered to Zinwell with the USB Implementers Forum, and 5257 is the product ID that Zinwell assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 5a57:5257 Zinwell Metronic 495257 wifi 802.11ng.
How to identify it on your system
Linux
$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 5a57:5257 Zinwell Metronic 495257 wifi 802.11ng
You can filter directly with lsusb -d 5a57:5257, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 5a57:5257. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=5a57, idProduct=5257.
Windows
In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:
USB\VID_5A57&PID_5257 USB\VID_5A57&PID_5257&REV_0100
From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_5A57&PID_5257"
macOS
$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
Metronic 495257 wifi 802.11ng:
Product ID: 0x5257
Vendor ID: 0x5a57 (Zinwell)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:
5a57 Zinwell 5257 Metronic 495257 wifi 802.11ng