THATS GOT IT!

OK so just to duplicate ALL the information I found useful here (thanks to elduce for passing on mwax321 suggestion), here is how to get the wifi antenna working & what to do if you screw it up.

1) Select WiFi, scan for networks, add your wifi network with whatever the defaults are (create a new WWAN interface, etc).  Just do it the way you would if you had no idea what you were doing.
2) Go back and select the interface for WAN, edit it, and change from STATIC to DHCP CLIENT and click the button directly below it to change the type (not the save or save & apply, but directly next to it to change the type, it might be like "REALLY CHANGE TYPE?", click yes).
3) Unplug the machine, unplug the ethernet cable, plug the electricity back in, wait about 30 seconds.

In the even you screwed up your wifi settings, there is a RESET button on the "card" that the ethernet cable plugs into with white text labeling "S2" (i think, my eyes aren't great).  On my particular machine this button did nothing, so i had to manually do a hard reset.  On the original version, there may not be a button.

If you completely f~k up your machine and cant get back into it, this is how to reset
https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FUa75bkY.jpg&t=536&c=Ah9HaW4XprLEGA


I can't draw on this image, but i'll describe as best I can using my newbish vocabulary.
Two points of interest:
The big blueish-purpleish chip thing where the wifi antenna wire plugs in.  On the left side of that are 11 connections to the green silicon board.  Not the one on the very bottom, but the one right above that (2nd one).
To the left and up from that about an inch away there is a red light.  Directly left of that are two metal dots.  The upper-most dot that's closest to the red light.

You need to bend a paperclip and touch both of these at the same time while the machine is plugged in.  Not for very long, half a second is all it takes, the machine (and possibly you) will have a sudden heart attack and go completely dark & silent very abruptly.  There should be no risk of electrocution here, but bear in mind I'm just kind of stumbling through to-do lists without a good understanding of what I'm doing here, so no guarantees.  After a lengthy (was nearly 10 minutes for me) boot up, the machine will put itself back on 192.168.1.99.  I never needed to change my computer to static IP or change my router to 192.168.2.1 for any of this, but apparently the older models default to 192.168.2.99 so you need to move your router from 192.168.2.1 (which will kick all your computers off the wifi).

I now have this noisy stinky filthy (possibly radioactive) machine grinding away in my basement.

I love the Antminer S1, and I really like this company, but I'm also quite happy to have this thing out of my room

edit:
Sorry, I actually took about an hour pawing through the thread & didn't find what I was looking for.  Rather than having every possible problem the machine can encounter all in one thread it would make sense to have threads addressing and solving specific problems for better indexing.

Feel free to delete the thread

I managed to lock myself out of the Antminer once already trying to set up the wi-fi antenna, so clearly I'm either over or under-thinking this.

Following Dogie's fabulous guide here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=355387
And sushi's guide here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=344970.0

Both state something to the effect of "add your wireless network settings". 

Here is explicitly what i'm doing:
Network > Interfaces > WiFi > Scan for networks
Putting in the password for the network.  It default to creating a new interface called WWAN.
After hitting apply, both WAN and WWAN connect, but they each seem to take a different IP address (the WAN stays on 192.168.1.99, but the wireless jumps on DHCP somewhere, generally 192.168.1.6 or 192.168.1.7).
I unplug the Ethernet cable & it continues to mine for bitcoins using the wifi.

Great, except the problem is if I unplug the power cord & plug it back in, it can't re-establish the connection.  I've attempted taking down my routers firewall completely, creating a port forwarding for my mining port to the dynamic IP address (which is not practical if I have 2 machines mining off wifi), and bridging the connections (which made my machine totally inaccessable via ethernet & forced me to hard reset it).

Once powered back on, the ONLY way to get it mining again is to plug the ethernet cable in for about 30 seconds so it can get connected again, then unplug the cable.  The problem here is that I would like to set the machine up in another room, which means walking an ethernet cable in there and "jump starting" it every time it loses power, which is not particularly practical.

WHEW, ok, the reset button seems to be broken on my machine or something because it did nothing, but i did a hard reset and it sounded like the computer had the equivalent of a heart attack; all the lights shut off and it got dead silent the instant i tapped the paperclip to the terminals, then it came back alive and jumped back on the network at 192.168.1.99

Thanks for the idea Dogie, i didn't even think to look for a way to do a hard reset

sorry, i'm not getting this.  Pressed the button labeled S2 on the antminer, rebooted it and set my router back to 192.168.2.1, but i'm still not seeing the antminer at either 192.168.2.1 or 192.168.1.1.  Not sure if the reset isn't working or if it's something else.

Thanks for the follow up dogie... Is that the small black button up against the heat sync left of where the antenna wire plugs in?  Do I have to hold it for a certain amount of time or power it on and off while holding it?  Simply pressing it or pressing & holding for 5 seconds doesn't seem to reset anything.

Trying to get the WiFi set up for the Antminer S1.  Hooked up the antenna, but I couldn't get it to connect via wifi.

I haven't changed any of the WAN settings, but I went into LAN and checked to bridge the LAN with WAN and WWAN and put in the wireless info.  In the admin page it showed LAN WAN and WWAN all 3 connected on the addresses .1.3, .1.6, and .1.99.  Rebooted the machine, now it seems bricked.

I can't get at it from its static IP address at .1.99, I can't get at it from either of the two dynamic IP addresses the DHCP is giving it (currently .1.3 and .1.6).  I can't seem to administrate it or fix it in any way, and it's not mining.

Not sure what to do.  Did I just ruin the machine? ;-;