Ralink rt5370 not working

It seems that wifi dongle Ralink Rt5370 cannot even be enumerated in PBox 1.1.3. I tried in both Pi1B and Pi3 and the device cannot be enumerated. In other Raspberry distros it works out of the box. any ideas?

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lsusb shows nothing
dmesg from both devices:
Pi3:
15.965131] usb 1-1.2: new full-speed USB device number 4 using dwc_otg
[ 16.075153] usb 1-1.2: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[ 16.305136] usb 1-1.2: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[ 16.535142] usb 1-1.2: new full-speed USB device number 5 using dwc_otg
[ 16.645135] usb 1-1.2: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[ 16.875126] usb 1-1.2: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[ 17.095136] usb 1-1.2: new full-speed USB device number 6 using dwc_otg
[ 17.545131] usb 1-1.2: device not accepting address 6, error -32
[ 17.650004] usb 1-1.2: new full-speed USB device number 7 using dwc_otg
[ 18.095145] usb 1-1.2: device not accepting address 7, error -32
[ 18.095409] usb 1-1-port2: unable to enumerate USB device


Pi1:
154.050175] usb 1-1.2: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[ 154.280155] usb 1-1.2: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[ 154.510156] usb 1-1.2: new full-speed USB device number 9 using dwc_otg
[ 154.610163] usb 1-1.2: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[ 154.830159] usb 1-1.2: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[ 155.050156] usb 1-1.2: new full-speed USB device number 10 using dwc_otg
[ 155.490154] usb 1-1.2: device not accepting address 10, error -32
[ 155.590245] usb 1-1.2: new full-speed USB device number 11 using dwc_otg
[ 156.030283] usb 1-1.2: device not accepting address 11, error -32
[ 156.043725] usb 1-1-port2: unable to enumerate USB device