my home phone is messed up and cracks like crazy so i pulled out my old lineman's handset and tried to hook it up to a telephone wire in my house... but i don't get the dial tone... does anyone know how can i hook this up? inside the house there are 2 wires; red & green... handset has 2 aligator clips; red & black. when i hook them up red - red, green - black, i still get nothing ??? pls forward me to an URL or explaing ...

thanx for your time