After rebooting from that, I hooked up the ethernet and an old WIFI dongle that I KNEW would work, and made sure that I could move to the kitchen table (Gotta watch that the chili won't bubble over!)

I used putty to ssh into the Raspi B via the ethernet connection and then enabled the wifi dongle:

setup the wifi on /etc/network/interfaces

allow-hotplug wlan0

iface wlan0 inet dhcp

wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

setup the wifi on /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

network={

ssid="Whatever Your ESSID IS"

psk="YOUR WIFI PASSWORD"

}

I Let the Raspi B simmer for a bit, and discovered that the Wlan0 adapter picked up and IP address from my router just as well as you please...

Once I had the IP for the wifi, I used that address in a putty terminal to verify it did work. NOTE: Wifi is NOTICEABLY slower than a native ethernet connection, but I am stuck on this, as I don't have much left to buy the right equipment (the wifi adapters were cheap, I knew they worked, and I wanted to make sure I had SOME connectivity at least, since I now couldn't get ethernet that I KNOW will work and it would take too long for me to solder them up).