diff --git a/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Linmodem-HOWTO.sgml b/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Linmodem-HOWTO.sgml
index 10a74411..bc3e5e63 100644
--- a/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Linmodem-HOWTO.sgml
+++ b/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Linmodem-HOWTO.sgml
@@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ even though a module may be rendered functional, it is advisable to use them min
 Quoting an email from Mark Spieth, 
 <p>
 "A driver can never work properly if there are unresolved symbols, as it means
-something is not going to work. Furthermore, it means that that something
+something is not going to work. Furthermore, it means that something
 that would have been called will call something else in the kernel 
 and this could be anything. This is <em>very</em> bad."
 <p>