I guess the vt100 came from your /etc/ttys - default is vt100 I think.
I have mine changed to form like:

ttyE0   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         wsvt25  on secure

wsvt25 is wscons + colour terminal.

Jaromir

yo _ wrote:
> Thanks to you all for super easy solution. For some reason my term was being 
> set automatically to vt100, i just added export TERM line to /etc/profile. I 
> was wondering if any of you have that line in your login scripts, or if bash 
> (or whatever shell you use) detected vt220 automatically. Also, Christian 
> how did you get the delete key to work as it really should, i kind of want 
> to set that correctly too. Thanks again for all your help, now if only i 
> could find out how far along firewire support is in the core tree...
> -rian
> 
> 
> >From: Christian Hattemer <chris@heaven.riednet.wh.tu-darmstadt.de>
> >To: yo _ <exhausted01@hotmail.com>
> >CC: port-i386@netbsd.org
> >Subject: Re: Keyboard doesn't work correctly
> >Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 19:58:15 +0100
> >
> >Hello yo,
> >
> >On 04-Jan-03, you wrote:
> >
> > > i should have mentioned that too. In less or any other program from that
> > > matter, they don't understand the pageup or pagedown keys or delete, 
> >they do
> > > understand the arrow keys so that isn't a problem. In x though, all the 
> >keys
> > > work correctly in the terminal window (probably since x uses a different
> > > keyboard driver, and the terminal is an emulated terminal). Any 
> >suggestions
> > > to fixing this?
> >
> >Yes, X does its own keyboard mapping, independently from wscons. I wanted
> >to say that I have the same problem, but I just found that it seems to have
> >disappeared. What release do you have? I have 1.6 and $TERM is vt220.
> >
> >The delete key is a different thing, it should work the same as the 
> >backspace
> >key because both are mapped the same by wscons. I have changed this to get 
> >a
> >real delete key.
> >
> >Bye, Chris
> >
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