I am trying to wire a house we are remodeling with 4-pair wire for the owner's old Lucent Merlin phone system.

The best I could figure, you are supposed to wire the 4-pair with the T568B wiring standard (orange/white, orange, green/white, blue, blue/white, green, brown/white, brown). Unfortunately, though, when I plugged the phones in to the cables with this configuration, nothing happened.

Can anyone tell me the correct configuration to use when wiring these phone systems?

Thank you for any help you can give me.