HTC Mobile Phone Wi-Fi network to 7 Inch Tablet connection question

[alexinessex]

Hi all

Hope someone can help

Bought my son a 7" tablet for Christmas. Problem is when I set up a Wi-Fi network on my HTC phone the tablet wont find/see it.

I have no problems linking my HTC phone Wi-Fi network to my laptop if I am out.
And the tablet finds my home internet Wi-Fi and hotspots outside home with no problem.

So I know the Wi-Fi network on my HTC phone works and I know the tablet can see Wi-Fi networks. The tablet just will not find my HTC one.

Does anyone know why or what I need to do to get around this issue please?

Kind regards

 

[jkane]

What cell service? What tablet?

Likely your phone is doing adhoc wifi netowrking which is the default. The stock Android does not support ad-hoc. It requeies the mode to be infrastructure. There are root hacks that will make the tablet see ad-hoc and connect to it. Some phones can be made to do infrastructure, or so I've heard. I don't know which ones though.

 

[alexinessex]

Hi

My phone is a HTC Mini HD and my carrier is T-Mobile.

The tablet I got off ebay all I know is the listing said "NEW GOOGLE Android 2.1 HDMI 7 Inch PC Tablet E/Apad"

Build number is: WMT2.2_105

My phone does say: Mode Ad hoc

 

[pbrauer]

Do a search on these forums for making changes to the wpa_supplicant file. That is what will need to be tweaked.