Sony a99 and wireless flashes

I bought a second flash unit to my a99 recently hoping to use 2 flashes in wireless mode - but unfortunately it doesn't seem to work (or maybe I am doing somehting wrong) I have Sony f42 and f56. F56 is set to wireless mode (red light is flashing) and my f42 sits on the camera (connected through the adapter) and it is also set to wireless mode via menu (Fn button). Tried switching these 2 flashes around but the one not connected to the camera never fires . Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong ?

I don't know the specifications of the Sony flashes specifically, but there are two ways to do wireless, via remote signal, or by triggering.
Looking on these charts:
http://www.sony-asia.com/microsite/assets/alpha/lighting/04_products/4-3.html
http://www.sony-asia.com/support/resources/en_TH/html/Compatibility/DSLR/Flash/sony/F42am.html
http://www.sony-asia.com/support/resources/en_TH/html/Compatibility/DSLR/Flash/sony/F56am.html
My simple guess is that these older models don't support a true wireless mode where one can act as a remote to trigger the other.
That's just a hunch - I could be wrong
So, your option of triggering it is via flash triggering.
That means, you put on one your camera to fire when your camera fires, and the other in ****** mode.
I can't remember the difference between the ****** modes, but basically, one of them will flash when it detects the flash from the flash on the camera.
Anyways, good luck.

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