diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ppp-and-slip/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ppp-and-slip/chapter.sgml
index b89694f4c2..ace06a26a5 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ppp-and-slip/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ppp-and-slip/chapter.sgml
@@ -2160,7 +2160,7 @@ ppp_profile="name_of_service_provider"</programlisting>
 
       <para>or can be done immediately with the command:</para>
 
-      <screen>&prompt.root; sysctl net.graph.nonstandard_pppoe=1</screen>
+      <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>sysctl net.graph.nonstandard_pppoe=1</userinput></screen>
 
       <para>Unfortunately, because this is a system-wide setting, it is
 	not possible to talk to a normal PPPoE client or server and a