diff -urN a/pexpect-2.3/pxssh.py b/pexpect-2.3/pxssh.py

--- a/pexpect-2.3/pxssh.py	2013-07-09 13:12:07.458885414 +0200

+++ b/pexpect-2.3/pxssh.py	2013-07-09 13:14:54.865687037 +0200

@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@

         # connecting to a heavily loaded machine I have.

         # If latency is worse than these values then this will fail.

+        self.sendline()

         self.read_nonblocking(size=10000,timeout=1) # GAS: Clear out the cache before getting the prompt

         time.sleep(0.1)

         self.sendline()