diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 649f93b5..4e2418ac 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2012-01-10  Joerg Wunsch <j.gnu@uriah.heep.sax.de>
+
+	Submitted by Bob Frazier:
+	bug #35208: avrdude 5.11 on freebsd 8.2-STABLE does not reset
+	Arduino Uno properly
+	* arduino.c (arduino_open): Bump the timeout between pulling
+	the DTR and RTS lines low and high.
+
 2012-01-08  Rene Liebscher <R.Liebscher@gmx.de>
 
 	Fixed following findings reported by cppcheck
diff --git a/arduino.c b/arduino.c
index 123e83e8..6ab8a4b2 100644
--- a/arduino.c
+++ b/arduino.c
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ static int arduino_open(PROGRAMMER * pgm, char * port)
   /* Clear DTR and RTS to unload the RESET capacitor 
    * (for example in Arduino) */
   serial_set_dtr_rts(&pgm->fd, 0);
-  usleep(50*1000);
+  usleep(250*1000);
   /* Set DTR and RTS back to high */
   serial_set_dtr_rts(&pgm->fd, 1);
   usleep(50*1000);