Can't install windows without ethernet

[gjbf1]

Just installing windows 11 on my new rig. At the set up screen where it wants to connect to a network. It can't detect the WiFi and there is no hard cable. So I'm stuck.

How do Microsoft get even more stupid and incompetent over time!

Trying the CMD bypass but although I can open the CMD prompt I can't type in it.

Help please?

Thanks.

 

[gjbf1]

Ordered a 30m ethernet cable.....

******* Microsoft.

 

[gjbf1]

Thanks. I tried two different keywords in three USB ports. CMD prompt wouldn't recognise them.

The 30m ethernet cable across my house did the trick. I wonder if MS will refund the ten quid it cost.

 

[gjbf1]

I very recently installed 11 without a lan cable or wifi. It asked to set up using internet, and then gave an option to carry on with a 'limited experience' without internet. Job done.
connected to the internet once the local account was created.

I didn't get that option.

Bit of a weird one
Since assuming you did shift +f10
To get command prompt
It was recognising your keyboard

@drakulton
Depends what version number you used
The later the version number
The more draconian they are getting
Previous versions I used to be able to bypass
Making a Microsoft account
Simply by saying my email address was [email protected]
But they're just making it harder and harder

Yeah the keyboard thing was strange. Shift F10 worked.

 

[gjbf1]

I've noticed on the newer variants of the win11 installer the cmd prompt isn't the focus until you click it with the mouse to bring it to the top, even though it opens over the setup screen.

I made sure it was in focus.

The option only appeared on W11 Pro if I remember, home version doesn't have it. No idea if it's still there now though.

I tried again with Pro. No different.

 

[gjbf1]

Yeah I tried mouse clicking on it.

 

[gjbf1]

On this subject I had to use the CMD prompt and it thankfully worked but is there any reason Wifi card detection is so awful pre actually getting into the OS? are they that proprietary?

I assumed no drivers. But silly really as so many people rely on WiFi.