I was able to compile wavemon, if anyone's interested.
http://www.janmorgenstern.de/projects-software.htmldownload and untar version 0.4.0b, cd into the wavemon directory
it wouldn't compile for me til I edited the wavemon.c file:
go to line 173, change
exit();
to
exit(0);
then run
./configure && make
(you'll see some warnings, ignore them)
then cp the wavemon binary to /usr/bin/ or wherever you like (or run
it right there with ./wavemon )
wavemon is groovy