Here’s where I am at the moment. I’ve turned firewall off. I was able to successfully ping the tablet from the laptop. I think you’re right about the bridge, my point with that was just that they do seem to be able to talk to each other, I just can’t get it to see gig performer.
OK-UPDATE it appears it’s something in the tablet. It’s an older unit, I tried it with a newer one and it works as it should. I guess it’s probably the dated OS? At any rate-thanks all.
The one tab I’d been working on is 7.1.2, but a custom ROM (maybe something wonky there, but works great for everything else) The other old on I have is 6.0, and that doesn’t work either.