Windows 11 fresh installation "Let's connect you to a network" stuck

This trick worked. You are a hero. This should be the top ranked answer.

Unbeliveable. They don't install any kind of a driver to help you out, but request to be connected to network... They even tell you to "go online and download drivers and install them, THEN connect to network" 🤣🤣 Well how am I going to download them unless I connect to the network??

Microsoft: "Well, we won't allow you to connect but you WILL give us your email address if you want to use our operating system 👿. Also, it doesn't matter if you PAID for it, you will be seeing ADS."

Here's another solution ✅✅ :

Connect your phone using USB with your charging cable, then enable tethering on your phone to share wifi with the new PC/laptop. You must have wifi on your phone.

Note: You may need to enable developer options on your phone. Search online on how to do this for your phone. Once enabled, search for tethering in developer options. It's somewhere around 'hotspot' options. You can find 'tethering' also by holding your finger on 'hotspot' icon when you drag it from above.

Why the hell do you need to connect to the internet in a setup environment that does not load its drivers. Boot to windows God damn it and let people install their drivers there what kind of **** is this. What the hell is wrong with you people at ms... Now I'm stuck at the setup screen which keeps trying to connect to the internet. The network link led is blinking but for some reason win11 is too stupid to get a connection.

Thank God I have an USB network adapter else I would have been stuck. Please remove the stupid mandatory connection on setup and do this check in windows where people can actually install drivers

Thats exactly what I did. After it is all setup, I was asked for driver updates and the 'installed' Rj45 port worked after reboot.

I have the same question. I got a new HP 15 Windows 11 laptop for college and haven't been able to get past the setup section, the "Let's connect you to a Network connection" screen specifically. There are no options, the "Next" button is grayed out. Shift-F10, Ctrl-Shift-F10, Shift-Fn-F10, Windows key-R, and Ctrl-Shift-Esc doesn't work. I can hit Shift-F3 and it will log me in as the Administrator but I can't do anything else. I tried opening the terminal from Device Manager and it said that the Terminal was disabled. I tried enabling it and nothing happened, it didn't switch to enabled. I tried to run troubleshooting for the Network and it said "Windows did not detect a properly installed network adapter". In response, I searched up how to reinstall that and THAT didn't work either. I reset the network, restarted the computer, and factory reset the laptop. Nothing has worked so far. I bought an ethernet cable but to my disappointment, I had to buy an adapter separately which won't be here in time for my classes. I am on my final straw and close to buying another laptop if the ethernet cable doesn't work.