Try adding following to your /etc/wscons.conf

mapfile /usr/share/wscons/keymaps/pckbd.be.azerty

This should setup wscons to use belgium style mapping.

Jaromir

KOBAYASHI wrote:
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> hello
> 
> 
> i'm new to bsd (installed 1.6 today for the first time) and while i was
> going through the "netbsd guide" one of the first things i wanted to do was
> changing the keyboard layout into belgian (azerty)... but i keep on getting
> the same problem:
> 
> # wsconsctl -k -w encoding=be
> wsconsctl: WSKBDIO_SETENCODING: Invalid argument
> 
> i tried all the resources i could think of, including:
> - wsconsctl manpage
> (http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?wsconsctl++NetBSD-1.6)
> - wscons faq (http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/wscons/#enablingwscons)
> - port-i386 mailing list search
> (http://www.google.com/custom?q=port-i386+wsconsctl&cof=LW%3A247%3BL%3Ahttp%
> 3A%2F%2Fwww.netbsd.org%2Fimages%2FNetBSD-smaller.jpg%3BLH%3A241%3BAH%3Acente
> r%3BAWFID%3A4f6b0499f0f58d2c%3B&domains=mail-index.netbsd.org&sitesearch=mai
> l-index.netbsd.org)
> 
> i looked in the /usr/include/dev/wscons/wsksymdef.h file and there is a
> reference towards "be" as a possible encoding layout...
> 
> am i doing something wrong?
> 
> 
> many thanks for helping me out
> kobayashi
> 
> 
> ps. if there's another (maybe more appropriate) way of getting some help
> than this mailinglist; please let me know...
> 


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Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>            http://www.NetBSD.org/
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