6557:8005 — Car Key

Emtec

Vendor ID: 6557
Product ID: 8005
Combined: 6557:8005
Decimal: 25943:32773

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a Car Key manufactured by Emtec. The vendor ID 6557 is registered to Emtec with the USB Implementers Forum, and 8005 is the product ID that Emtec assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 6557:8005 Emtec Car Key.

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 6557:8005 Emtec Car Key

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 6557:8005, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 6557:8005. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=6557, idProduct=8005.

Windows

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

USB\VID_6557&PID_8005
USB\VID_6557&PID_8005&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_6557&PID_8005"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    Car Key:
      Product ID: 0x8005
      Vendor ID: 0x6557  (Emtec)

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:

6557  Emtec
	8005  Car Key