My problem for connecting my raspberry to laptop is solved, had to bridge connection according to a post by a very helpful somebody:

http://www.robbiebrandrick.com/Blog/Details/6

Good day, Could someone help me troubleshoot; I have connected my Raspberry to my laptop, so I can use laptop as display. The laptop is connected to the net wirelessly (in a coffee shop). I set the IP address for the Pi to have the last digit to differ by 1, I am running Putty and Xming. Do I have t...