Nano wwith ATMega168 as ISP programmer?

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Hi ALL; I sourced 2pcs of what´s supposed to be NANO, but uses CH340 and ATMega168
and is already (supposedly ) bootloaded.
Installed driver for 340 from Sparkfun, opened arduino and selected:
Arduino Nano as board, atmega168 as processor, Arduino ISP as programmer.
Uploaded BLINK and was successful. ( Didn´t upload BOOTLOADER ).

Then uploaded Arduino as ISP, done, without any error message.
Placed a new 2313 on a breadboard, jumpered 10k from PIN1to PIN20.
and from the NANO PINs10, 11 12 and 13 to PINs 1, 17, 18 and 19 on 2313.
Powered the 2313 from NANO¨s 5v ( 4.7v , which I suppose is from USB port )

Tried to upload BLINK but no option for Arduino as ISP, the avilable don’t work.
Any fix for this?

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Which Arduino core are you using for the Attiny2313 ? This: GitHub - SpenceKonde/ATTinyCore: Arduino core for ATtiny 1634, 828, x313, x4, x41, x5, x61, x7 and x8 ?

When uploading code to the Attiny, you select the target board in the IDE, not the Nano, which you’re using as the ISP programmer.

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Almost sure it´s SpenceKonde: if it could be an issue, which would you recommend?

I did select the 2313 as target but the only options I get as programmer are:
AVRISP, AVRISP mkII, USBtinyISP, USBasp, Parallel Programmer, Arduino/Leo as ISP USBtinyISP SLOW.

Would the bootloader be an jssue?
Can I reload a bootloader?

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You probably need to disable auto-reset on the Nano.

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OK, reinstalled v1.6 tried again, same failure. After sometime looking around I scrolled down Boards Manager and found MCUdude MiniCore, the last, and installed.
Now I see two MiniCore lists when I scroll down Boards, but continued;

Tools – Nano -168 – ArduinoISP - DONE, my LED blinks!

Opened Arduino ISP and it uploaded. Connected my 2313, used Arduino as ISP but got “Wrong Chip”
Tried BurnBootloader, successful; uploaded Blink, DONE.
So I guess you were right, Bootloader IS needed. Successfully uploaded to tiny45 also.

I chips dont have any other chips, so one question:
It should be able to program all the chips in the dropdown list?

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Wacky that you got wrong chip before doing burn bootloader... or do you mean burning the mini ore bootloader yo 168? I like those 168 nanos, because they seem to be able to cram everything into top of board (so it sits flat on surface. Unsure why 328p namos arent available eith that layout...