Web based wireless signal monitoring/AP scan

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
this is functionality enhancement

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I would like you to have possibility to monitor connected AP/client signal
(when router is in client/AP mode) via web interface.
Web based wireless AP scan function would be very nice to have.

I know there is AP scan via cmdline tools, but it's more convenient to have
it implemented in web interface to quickly monitor/resolve connection problems.

What version of the product are you using?
WL500gp-1.9.2.7-d-r1000

Please provide any additional information below.
I have tested dd-wrt firmware which has this option (to see signal level of
connected AP / clients) and AP scan, but the connection was unstable and i
like your firmware better because of connection stability.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by peter.pa...@gmail.com on 9 Apr 2010 at 11:28

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Original comment by lly.dev on 9 Apr 2010 at 11:39

• Added labels: Component-WebUI, Priority-Low, Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Priority-Medium, Type-Defect

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I've briefly looked into this. I think dd-wrt uses iwspy to measure the link 
quality per client, they can be found here: 
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html
I've tried them out without success. It seems that the utilty requires 
/proc/net/wireless to be available, therefore I turned the wireless extension 
on in the kernel configuration. This resulted in a 4KB larger firmware image. I 
flashed my rt-n16 but it seems the image became unbootable. 
The power comes on, switch will be initialized but after that the system stops 
responding. After the switch wifi should be initialized, so I guess we have a 
compatibility problem. Perhaps dd-wrt uses different wireless drivers.

The program iwspy, unstripped, staticly linked is about 14KB lzma compressed

any thoughts?

Original comment by WP.s...@gmail.com on 3 Aug 2012 at 2:19