Although EU is a bogus alpha2 we need to process the send request
as our code depends on last_request being set.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: NQuentin Armitage <Quentin@armitage.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NLuis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>