Modem question

[Mark Szidik]

At home I am running RH 7.0 (upgraded from 6.1)  and used to have no
trouble connecting to the 'net using the KDE PPP dialer.

Now I always get a "modem is busy" response from the dialer.  (it does
not dial or go off hook at all)

I have an external modem on COM2.  I always used to use /dev/ttyS1 to
access the modem.  Since the "upgrade" it does not work anymore.

In /var/log/dmesg I noticed that the kernel recognizes the two serial
ports as /dev/ttyS00 and /dev/ttyS01.  The weird thing is there is no
entry for these devices in the /dev tree.  

How can I make these device files?

Thanks,

Mark