While restoring password on my MacBook, cant connect wifi

I tried to restore my MacBook account password. It put me to the restoring menu and asked to enter my Apple ID and password. The problem is when I am in that menu MacBook cant connect wifi. I tried to connect it during the loading (holding ctrl), but in this way it disconnects and puts me to that menu again, so I cant enter any menu to connect wifi, it only asks me to choose the language and than continues with this password resroring menu. What I have to do?

OS X 10.7 Lion, 10.8 Mountain Lion, 10.9 Mavericks and 10.10 Yosemite
Reset Password
Start the computer,then press and hold down command and R keys to start into recovery partition.
When you see the Apple logo, release the keys.
Wait until  OS X Utilities window shows up.
Move the mouse pointer to the menubar at the top and click "Utilities", then select "Terminal"
from the drop down.
Terminal window will appear.
Type in   resetpassword   and press enter on the keyboard.
Leave the Terminal window open.
Reset Password Utility window will open with Macintosh HD selected.
Select the user account from the popup menu box under “Select user account”.
Enter a new password.
Reenter the new password for the user.
Enter a hint.
Click the "Save" button.
Click  in the menubar and select Restart.
Log in.
If Keychain dialog box appears, select “Create New Keychain”.

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