because there is no wifi network to connect to? In that case make your
Android tablet act as a wifi hotspot and have your laptop connect to that
"wifi network". Then both tablet and laptop are connected to the same wifi
network.

It should be possible to make the laptop act as a wifi hotspot as well (I
often do that with my RPi running a Debian derivative, but it's harder with
Windows) - though dead easy to do with Android.

Chris

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 11:53 AM, embedded systems <piclist9@gmail.com>
wrote:

> The common thought for all of those links: "Make sure your computer and
> tablet are both connected to the same Wi-Fi network."
> not extremely joyful...
>
> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 1:02 AM, James Cameron <quozl@laptop.org> wrote:
>
> > Search for "using an android tablet as display" yields some
> > interesting hits:
> >
> >
> >
> http://www.greenbot.com/article/2451320/how-to-use-your-android-tablet-as=
-a-second-laptop-screen.html
> >
> >
> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=3Dcom.splashtop.remote.xdis=
play&hl=3Den
> > http://mashable.com/2012/11/01/tablet-second-monitor/
> >
> > I've not used those levels of integration; rather my collection of
> > datasheets is on a web server on my local network, and I use a web
> > browser to bring up what is needed.  Thus no need to install special
> > purpose software.
> >
> > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 04:01:25PM -0400, John Ferrell wrote:
> > > I would like a pointer to a "how to" for an android tablet if possibl=
e.
> > >
> > > On 5/20/2015 1:27 AM, James Cameron wrote:
> > > > Some people get a tablet and use that as an additional display.  Go=
od
> > > > for datasheets and large manuals.
> >
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