It occurred to me that Zbigniew Baniewski wrote in gmane.os.netbsd.current:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 04:44:24PM +0200, Wouter Klouwen wrote:
>
>> I have never had any of these problems. My $TERM is `xterm'.
>
> xterm is for X11 - didn't you notice, that I was asked for console?

I think I found the root of all your problems:

Your attitude.