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

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  1. Jan 4, 2011 #1
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    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
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    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.
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    Do a search on these forums for making changes to the wpa_supplicant file. That is what will need to be tweaked.
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