Now that I somehow got the umlauts, I am fighting with
a Toshiba 3440CT laptop which has a Microsoft Natural
keyboard attached to it via USB. The internal keyboard
of the laptop works 100% correctly, but somehow this
external USB keyboard does not. Certain keys dont
send anything under X, like the "star" above right
shift, and the arrow brackets (left of "Z"). I have
tried to configure XF86Config in every way possible,
but I cant make those buttons work. Is there something
wrong with my wscons or pcvt settings? 

BR,
Teemu