8086:beef — SCM Miniature Card Reader/Writer
Intel Corp.
- Vendor ID
- 8086
- Product ID
- beef
- Combined
- 8086:beef
- Decimal
- 32902:48879
What is this device?
This is the USB identifier for a SCM Miniature Card Reader/Writer manufactured by Intel Corp.. The vendor ID 8086 is registered to Intel Corp. with the USB Implementers Forum, and beef is the product ID that Intel Corp. assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 8086:beef Intel Corp. SCM Miniature Card Reader/Writer.
How to identify it on your system
Linux
$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 8086:beef Intel Corp. SCM Miniature Card Reader/Writer
You can filter directly with lsusb -d 8086:beef, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 8086:beef. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=8086, idProduct=beef.
Windows
In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:
USB\VID_8086&PID_BEEF USB\VID_8086&PID_BEEF&REV_0100
From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_8086&PID_BEEF"
macOS
$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
SCM Miniature Card Reader/Writer:
Product ID: 0xbeef
Vendor ID: 0x8086 (Intel 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:
8086 Intel Corp. beef SCM Miniature Card Reader/Writer