Wolvix Schmolvix
After many, many attempts to get Wolvix Linux to use a wireless connection and many, many utter failures to accomplish same, I think it's time to declare Wolvix "not ready for real world use." The Wolvix forum provided some help, but all I managed to get the lights to blink without getting a genuine connection. Wolvix was also not always launching the window manager fully, and didn't connect with a wired connection at first. It did eventually, so at least it seems possible to use it that way. That, however, is pretty useless when the places I'd use the laptop tend not to have sockets to plug into but only wireless access.
It is disappointing as overall Wolvix looks good. Too bad it doesn't seem to actually work.
I suppose, if nothing else, this at least means I won't have to put up with the GNU/ prefix silliness.