i was looking for fellow boingo mobile users, to find how they are dealing with a specific problem, but first...
Your nokia has to be connected to the hotspot for boingo to do anything, my town (Nottingham) is well populated with BT OpenZone, so my N800 auto-connects to those. Boingo has a daemon running called "/usr/bin/goboingo" which is precompiled, and multipurpose running the background auto-signin and GUI for settings. It is started from /etc/rcN.d/K99boingomobile, dbus and the desktop menu (for settings).

When it realises it is connected to a parter hotspot, it performs the sign-in which allows connection to the wider Internet, and provides an icon in the system-tray area which appears when first identifies the partner connection, then changes colour from red to orange to indicate signing on, changing to green when signed on. It also signs on on my home network, i don't know why. The home network doesn't appear in my network usage, so I am ignoring this annoyance.

My problem is, it does not always realise it's connected to a parter hotspot and there is no "sign-in now" option. It *seems* to be fixed by loading the GUI and confirming the already set option to auto-connect (ie click Settings, then OK). In boingo-speak, the phrase "Auto-connect" should say auto-sign-in, as the n800 does the connecting and when connected, the goboingo client passes credentials to something. Most partner sites have a boingo log-in on their web portal, but your boingo mobile credentials won't work at that screen, only the binary client can authenticate.

To summarise, the normal process is for the n800 to connect to a recognised access point, and the boingo mobile client to activate, display a system-tray status icon and sign-in to the service. On my device, sometimes the boingo client fails to activate and there is no manual over-ride.

Anyone else got feedback?