How to select nic while bootup?

[Roger Grosswiler]

Hey list,

i have 2 laptops, with those i can either connect via rj-45 or via
wireless. I use (at this stage) WPA to authenticate on wirless.

The thing is, that fc tries just to init eth0 on bootup, not wlan0. So,
all the following networking functionalities will fail.

How can i:

- tell the bootprocess to check also for the existance of wlan0 ?
- start wpa_supplicant only if wlan0 needs to be booted?

should i try to handle this issue on the bootscript for eth0 itself?

Thanks for any help
Roger