I have a Toshiba C655d-S5200 which I believe has AMD chipset. I am trying to run Bitcoin Core on either Ubuntu 16.04 or 17.10.1. I think my hardware is too slow for 17.10 but if I'm using WiFi it doesn't freeze.

As soon as I turn off WiFi and connect the Ethernet wire and open anything at all it freezes. No mouse or keyboard input. Have to power cycle to reset.

I have tried this: http://ubuntuguide.net/fix-cannot-connect-to-wired-internet-problem-in-ubuntu-or-ubuntu-vmware-guest

When I did ifconfig it said it wasn't installed. I installed it and then it said eth0 doesn't exist.

I have also tried to reserve an IP and when I go into settings it shows under dchp that it is using the reserved ip but it freezes either way.

Can someone please help me figure this out? I really need to run Bitcoin Core on Ethernet and not wifi.