For what it's worth...
Arch Core quietly removed the ipw2100-fw and ipw2200-fw packages this week. No notice either. I believe the drivers have been in recent kernels such that these packages are redundant - double check me on that. Intel's sourceforge site indicates such.
This broke at least one distro (EOS) for a while as their Calamares script was failing on the missing packages.
Given both packages are in Artix System, this distro could follow.
HTH