I shocked myself and got it working. Basically, you only have to edit the file in the link above, but I had no idea how to go about doing that. Here is what worked for me.
What you ultimately need to do is to modify the file /etc/network/interfaces to be:
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auto lo wlan0
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet dhcp
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-ssid “JeepGuyWiFi”
wpa-psk “JeepsAreAwesome”
Substitute JeepGuyWiFi for your SSID
Substitute JeepsAreAwesome for your Password
To edit the file, at the command line (after you boot and type pi, then raspberry) type:
sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces
which will open the file in the vi editor as a super user so you can save the read only file (more info on the vi editor and how to use it here
http://www.computerhope.com/unix/uvi.htm)
It will open the original file in the vi editor which should likely look like:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet dhcp
~
~
To use the vi editor, use the arrow keys and move your cursor to the end of the first line (auto lo) and press the i key (to insert text) and type wlan0. If it moves the o from lo, don’t worry, but you’ll have to fix that. To fix it, press the ESC key (to exit insert mode), use the arrows to move to where the extra “o” is and press the x key to delete the o at the end of the line, then use the arrows to go to where the “o” is supposed to be, press the i key again and replace the “o”. Then go to the end of the last line, press i and add the rest.
Press the ESC key once you have it all entered and then type :q to quit and save the file.
This should bring you back to a command prompt. Type sudo reboot to reboot.
While it is rebooting you should see some extra stuff regarding listening, sending, DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0, see some ip addresses and such.
Log in (Pi, Raspberry) Type startx and open midori and you should be able to browse the internet.
Maybe someone can chime in with a more elegant way to edit the file, but this finally worked for the DWA-131