you're right dave... only the light gets on...
but that doesn't enable/disable the numbers on the keypad ... :/

On the last episode, Dave Huang <khym@azeotrope.org> said to David
Ferlier <krp@freeshell.org>:

> On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, David Ferlier wrote:
> > if you wanna set it the led state under a wscons console, you need
> > to change the ledstate wsconsctl variable, like that
> >
> > wsconsctl -w ledstate=1
> 
> That'll turn the LED itself on, but not the actual function the LED is
> associated with. I.e., the NumLock LED will be on, but typing on the
> numeric keypad will still give you the arrow keys.
> 
> > if you're under X, you can effectively use xset.
> 
> I think "xset led" also only sets the LEDs, not the actual function.
> 
>