Glad to hear you're working.

I might also mention that after I got this working via Wicd, I had issues with the time not syncing properly.
There are two ways to fix:
Create config files for networking (I didn't want to do this), or install ntpd (will ask to remove openntpd).  After installing ntpd and rebooting, time sync worked again.  I'll try to find the link to the post I followed to fix this, and edit it into this post when I get a few minutes...