D-90 with Nikon AF Nikkor 28-80mm lens ?

Been messing around using my manual 35mm F2 lenses on this camera that my brother in law gave to me years ago, ... in trying out a new type of head set in shooting contemplative photography.
Lot cheaper and time consuming to see the image composition instantly via digital, in our learning process, ... of composition rather than waiting to have to develop the film.

So with the d-90 in manual B&W mode, we use our old lenses, but this lens that came with the camera, will not allow that unless its set to f22, as it gives an fEE error.

At last the question, ... Is there a way to use this lens as a normal lens, in the d-90, .. using all the f stops, ... rather than just f22?

One would think so, just don't know how to do it.

Look at the camera manual. It is designed so that you can set the AF lens to minimum aperture (f/22) and then control the aperture from one of the command wheels on the camera body.

The body can only mechanically stop down the lens as far as the setting on the aperture ring. So if you set the lens to f/8, the body can't stop down the lens to f/11 or f/16, and if you were in P or S mode, and the body wanted to set f/11, it would overexpose. To prevent this, Nikon made the body warn you with that "fEE" message.