[Hot News] [SOLVED]: How To Find The USB Device ID For Your USB Device

[Hot News] [SOLVED]: How To Find The USB Device ID For Your USB Device
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If you have just bought a new USB device and looking to find its Device ID, then just follow these steps to perform the required query operation to obtain this intricate detail for your USB device.

First, if your USB device runs some sort of firmware, ensure you have all the valid firmware in place for this USB device. For example, in case of a USB WiFi module TPLINK WN727N v4, the device runs a firmware from ralink. To ensure this firmware is loaded and running, we issue the following commands first:

sudo apt-get install wpasupplicant

sudo apt-get install firmware-ralink

Next, we run the Linux command line utility tool "lsusb" to obtain the intricate details of this attached TPLINK WN727N v4 USB WiFi module.

lsusb

After running the above "lsusb" command, you should see an output like this:

Bus 001 Device 007: ID 148f:7601 Ralink Technology, Corp.

From the above output, the ID field displays the USB device ID of the connect TPLINK WN727N v4 USB WiFi module.

So, this shows that TPLINK WN727N v4 USB WiFi module has an USB device ID of 148f:7601