[fso]is there any way to accesswifi eitherthrough the ui? the shell?

[arne anka]

depends, what fso using distribution you finally ended up with (shr,  
2008.12, debian).
with debian the usual wireless tools should be available, if not installed  
already:

apt-get install wireless-tools

as for a browser: with debian midori is a good choice imho, else there'S  
also links2 which operates in both text and graphics mode.