Unable to add a device (e.g. /dev/cua0) to a non-global zone

Hi,
I've installed solaris 10u4 on a x86 machine with the latest patches, installed with the smpatch utility
The history:
I've installed solaris 10u3 without any patches, a quite minimum installation; I 've created a non-global zone, added a zfs dataset, added networking, add one serial device (/dev/cua0); installed hylafax from blastwave in the created zone using the attached modem on /dev/cua0, all was working fine, except some sendmail issues. Due to issues with samba, which I needed on this machine, I've tried to update the machine, after ending up in dependency hell, due the minimum installation, I gave up. I did a fresh install of solaris 10u4 instead also with latest patches applied with the smpatch utility, the I've created a new zone and want to add the device /dev/cua0 like in the s10u3 installation, but the device doesn't appear in the non-global zone, so I've installed hylafax in the global-zone temporary.
The question, any ideas or workarrounds to bring the async device into a non-global zone again ?
I'm not a newbie in nix like systems (several years with BSD and GNU/Linux), but for solaris I would classify myself as a newbie ;-)
thanks in advance.

Hmm. If that didn't work, then it's possible you're running into a different problem.
But I checked again and this is the one I was thinking of. Toward the bottom, some patches are referenced. I suppose they won't hurt, but I'm worried you're seeing something related to the 'cua' device rather than the general problem of device creation.
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=171187
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