While looking at my dmesg output i found one line that may have also caused 
my original problems:

"wsdisplay0 at vga0 kbdmux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)"

Does anyone know why the wsdisplay driver is set to emulate vt100? i'm using 
NetBSD  1.6. thanks again.
-rian


>From: "yo _" <exhausted01@hotmail.com>
>To: chris@heaven.riednet.wh.tu-darmstadt.de
>CC: port-i386@netbsd.org
>Subject: Re: Keyboard doesn't work correctly
>Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 14:36:00 -0500
>
>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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