On Fri, 2020-06-12 at 00:50 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote:
This isn't a new laptop; it's at least ten years old. The cheap Walmart headphones has a single cord that ends in a jack. That goes into a Y connector that lets you plug into both the headphone and the mic. It's not important, as I'm not expecting to need it in the future.
Those adaptors can be very crappy. There's also the issue of whether they're the right one (the 4 pole TRRS jacks have two common, incompatible, ways of wiring the mike), though adaptors that come with a headset should have the right wiring.