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()