How to check in CLI that WiFi is used and is functional?

But the way, I think I discovered a bug with this experimenting.

Have a look:

https://forum.openwrt.org/t/openwrt-19-07-2-service-release/57066/16?u=lede_dude

Scanning of 5GHz networks does not work under certain country codes.

root@OpenWrt:~# iw dev wlan1 scan
command failed: Resource busy (-16)