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Using a wireless turtle from an external computer is slightly more complicated than this.

In order to simply make the turtle do things, you'll want to go use the turtle, type 'lua' and hit enter. This puts you into LUA 'mode' if you like. From here, all your commands will have to be lua commands such as turtle.dig or turtle.up e.t.c. In order to come out of this mode, you need to type 'exit' and hit enter. This will return you to the TurtleOS screen, and will allow the OS programs and functions to be used.

If you want to use the wireless functionality, you're going to need to look into 'rednet'. I'm not particularily well versed in it myself, so I'd suggest looking at the ComputerCraft forums and finding a thread similar to this one asking about Wireless turtles or Rednet in the 'Ask A Pro' section.

Hope this helps!